A Chinese-speaking operator used autonomous AI agents on the open-source Cairn platform to compromise the websites of more than 100 companies. NorForge tracks the most active campaign as AIA0001: over 1,100 attack projects across 14 dashboards, and more than 1,200 break-in attempts overall. Targets were e-commerce businesses in the United…
A Chinese-speaking operator used the open-source AI agent framework Cairn to run autonomous attacks against more than 1,200 sites, reaching websites of over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the operation around 2 October 2026 by scanning for about two dozen exposed Cairn…
Unit 42 analyzed the operational environment of a previously unreported, financially motivated, English-speaking actor using the handle BUGSTER. The actor ran the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek V4 as its reasoning engine and the Cursor IDE as a secondary tool, with safety controls disabled in both. With AI-generated scripts and reco…
Check Point Research reports that commercial antidetect browsers, notably Kameleo, AdsPower and MultiLogin, are widely referenced on Russian-language underground forums and marketplaces. They are used for account takeover, payment card fraud (carding), fraudulent loan applications, ad-revenue fraud, bulk creation of fake accounts and coor…
Threat actors are abusing the open source AI platform Cairn, an agent-coordination engine usable as an autonomous penetration testing tool, to automate attacks on hundreds of websites worldwide. AI security firm Norforge found the activity after threat actors left their Cairn panels exposed, following a Gambit Security report on attackers…