A Chinese-speaking attacker has reportedly compromised hundreds of websites worldwide by abusing Cairn, an AI-driven penetration-testing tool, to automate the attacks. Reported victims include large industrial and consumer brands such as John Deere, SharkNinja and engine manufacturer Cummins, from which the attacker is said to have looted…
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…
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…
A Chinese-speaking threat actor used AI agents coordinated through the open-source Cairn platform to attempt intrusions against more than 1,200 websites, reportedly compromising sites of over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the activity while monitoring internet-exposed…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 39, 2026) covers one law enforcement success and two active threat campaigns. A US court sentenced Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan ("Maneeken"/"Karl Lagerfeld"), an initial access specialist for Ryuk ransomware, to two years in prison and over $1.2 million in restitution. SentinelLABS ide…
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…