AI Agent Swarm Breaches Over 100 Companies for $5,000; Open-Source Platform Cairn Emerges as New Attack Tool
An operator deployed an AI agent swarm through the open-source platform Cairn for about $5,000 in API costs, automatically scanning more than 1,200 targets and breaching over 100 companies. NorForge researcher Snorre Fagerland documented the campaign, which security observers have dubbed “Black October.”