{"slug": "hackers-deploy-ai-agents-to-breach-over-1200-sites", "title": "Hackers Deploy AI Agents to Breach Over 1,200 Sites", "summary": "Malicious hackers used AI-powered autonomous agents to attempt to breach more than 1,200 websites across over 100 companies, according to the attackers' own records. The agents operated step by step with open-source tools to find vulnerabilities and plant web shells.", "body_md": "Malicious hackers have unleashed AI-powered agents on the internet, attempting to breach over 1,200 websites across more than 100 companies - and that's just based on the attackers' own records. These autonomous agents were given free rein to work step by step, using open-source tools to find vulnerabilities and plant web shells.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hackers-deploy-ai-agents-to-breach-over-1200-sites", "canonical_source": "https://osintsights.com/hackers-deploy-ai-agents-to-breach-over-1200-sites", "published_at": "2026-10-20 15:55:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-20 16:16:30.761625+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": [], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hackers-deploy-ai-agents-to-breach-over-1200-sites", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hackers-deploy-ai-agents-to-breach-over-1200-sites.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hackers-deploy-ai-agents-to-breach-over-1200-sites.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hackers-deploy-ai-agents-to-breach-over-1200-sites.jsonld"}}