threat-actors

A Reuters investigation found a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents built on the open-source Cairn platform to breach over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, for roughly $50 per successful intrusion.

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has attributed a wave of autonomous AI-driven exploitation attempts against 460+ targets to a Chinese-speaking threat actor who chained DeepSeek and Hermes Agent via Telegram to orchestrate reconnaissance and exploitation without manual intervention.