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Chinese hacker used AI agents to breach up to 100 companies, steal 600,000+ cards

Quartz details cost, frameworks and stolen-card totals

2 Sep 22 1:31 PM · 1d ago · 1 article · 4 posts · 2 sources · development 2 of 2

Quartz's writeup lays out the $3–$79 per-target spending, the Strix/Cairn/Hermes orchestration frameworks, and confirms 488,000 of the 600,000+ stolen records belonged to U.S. cardholders.

Quartz details cost, frameworks and stolen-card totals
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“The human being is directing almost fully autonomous AI models, which are strong enough by now to do very sophisticated cyberattacks quickly with close to zero preparation and very high rate of success”

Eyal Sela

Eyal Sela Director of threat intelligence, Gambit SecurityAnthropic Maker of Claude AI modelsCloudflare Infrastructure provider assisting takedownChinese-speaking hacker Unnamed attacker behind the campaignShadowserver Foundation Nonprofit security organization

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet Massive AI-Fueled Hack Hit 100 Companies In Days

    first by Mastodon, 6h ago

  2. 1 outlet Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to breach 100 companies, steal credit card data

    first by Quartz, 1d ago

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