$5 AI Attacks Are Breaching Corporate Websites at Scale

Podcast: What the AI?! · Upstart

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

A lone hacker used AI agents to breach over 100 companies in a single day for just $5,000 in API tokens. In Episode 96 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado examine a massive shift in automated cybersecurity. Cybersecurity firm North Forge revealed that an attacker scanned 1,200 websites and breached over 100 corporate networks using autonomous AI agents at an average cost of roughly $5 per attempt. The hosts discuss the end of "security through obscurity," a newly discovered critical vulnerability in PHP impacting over 50% of active web frameworks, and why major banks are suddenly blocking AI agents like Meta Muse...