How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites
- In a report provided to Reuters ahead of publication on Monday
, opens new tab, Fagerland said the hacker was one of several he discovered while scanning the web for inadvertently exposed instances of Cairn, an open-source AI problem-solving platform popular with hackers. Beginning around October 2, Fagerland said he found about two dozen instances of Cairn being used for malicious activity, which allowed him to quietly peer over the cybercriminals’ shoulders as they set their AI tools loose on the world.
Tasks
- Winterizing appointment
- 3:00 – Computer
SBIRs
- Get re-acquainted with the codebase
- Add a non-chess, “default parser” project
- See what’s going on with MDA
