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AI agents industrialize offensive security, breaching 100+ companies for $5k · 7 sources tracked

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An AI agent platform called Cairn, designed for problem-solving, was found to be operating without authentication, allowing a single Chinese-speaking operator to breach over 100 companies. This operator used autonomous agents, running on models like DeepSeek and Anthropic's Claude Code, to target over 1,200 websites, with each successful intrusion taking approximately 23 hours and costing around $5,000 in tokens. Separately, concerns are being raised about the potential for AI to cause a "severe misalignment" in mathematics and scientific research, with some Fields Medalists drawing parallels to historical critiques of funding and ethical compromises in academia. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates AI agents' capability for large-scale, low-cost cyberattacks, highlighting a shift towards industrialized offensive security and raising ethical concerns in research.

RANK_REASON The cluster details a significant security breach enabled by AI agents and discusses concerns about AI's impact on scientific integrity, involving multiple sources.

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    This technical guide provides a try of a "practical blueprint" for implementing the Agent Payments... # agents # ai # architecture # security # software # codin

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    Reuters reported it yesterday. One operator, 23 hours per intrusion, $5,000 in tokens. Offensive security just got industrialized. I found it because it had no

    Reuters reported it yesterday. One operator, 23 hours per intrusion, $5,000 in tokens. Offensive security just got industrialized. I found it because it had no login. Not a vulnerability. Not a misconfigured S3 bucket. A control panel for an AI agent platform called Cairn, just s…

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    Fields medalists wrote « A Severe Misalignment of # AI in # Mathematics ». Let remember Roger Godement open letter from April 1971: « If we believe we can take

    Fields medalists wrote « A Severe Misalignment of # AI in # Mathematics ». Let remember Roger Godement open letter from April 1971: « If we believe we can take anybody’s money for the sake of Mathematics and/or of our Complete Works, if we behave as if we agreed with the most cor…

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    Fields medalists wrote « A Severe Misalignment of # AI in # Mathematics ». Let remember Roger Godement open letter from April 1971: « Are we driven by the so-ca

    Fields medalists wrote « A Severe Misalignment of # AI in # Mathematics ». Let remember Roger Godement open letter from April 1971: « Are we driven by the so-called “ethics of knowledge” as so many scientists claim to be, or rather by a twisted sense of dignity according to which…

    LINKS mathandai.org michel.delord.free.fr/godement1971_delign…

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