Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations

ragu4u 27 points 9 comments October 19, 2026
norforge.com · View on Hacker News

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used... https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/...

Discussion Highlights (6 comments)

scorxn

The norforge report sounds like they were targeting magento (e-commerce) sites to steal some $. Darn, was hoping they were trying to swipe DRM keys or something.

jsbisviewtiful

> John Deere One of those companies that clearly deserved it.

gavinray

> "... for the harnesses we have seen in these campaigns, average success rate is hovering around 10%" A 10% success rate is absurd.

_neil

Cairn is one of those names that comes up regularly if you ask an LLM to generate project names. Similar to Loom. https://github.com/search?q=cairn+in%3Aname+created%3A%3E202...

catchnear4321

it’s always amusing to notice when the llm likely influenced the name.

VCFundedGenYer

Shame on SharkNinja in particular - they have no MFA for accounts.

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