If you thought that AI agents going rogue – they didn’t, if you really think about it – and their ability to jump from device to device while figuring out unfamiliar ones on their own was bad news, it gets worse: they’re simply the harbinger of what’s to come. A recent report pointed out that there are hackers who have perhaps taken inspiration from the episode, and have just decided to prompt their way into over 100 companies, with the total number of attempts going over 1,200. Making matters worse, these attempts were facilitated by a tool called Cairn.
Researchers at Norforge highlighted three clusters of AI threat activity, with each cluster likely representing one individual or group of threat actors. This includes one that prompts in Chinese, which some reports highlight as noteworthy for its prompts containing less than 100 Chinese characters. That said, due to the way the language works, this is about equivalent to using under 100 English words, so your mileage may vary as to whether that’s impressive or not.
