A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

A hacker used autonomous AI agents to breach more than 100 corporate websites, including targets like John Deere and SharkNinja. The software carried out multi-stage attacks after receiving minimal initial instructions from the human operator. System defenders now face persistent, automated intrusions orchestrated by general-purpose agent software.

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