AI and cloud briefing: a hacker used AI agents to breach 100+ companies for $5,000, Microsoft and Anthropic turn AI toward cyber defence, and UK fashion retailers face a wave of attacks
Reuters has traced a campaign in which one hacker used AI coding agents to compromise more than 100 company websites for around $5,000 in total. Separately, Microsoft and Anthropic are both putting AI to work on the defensive side, with new tools for security teams and open-source maintainers. And TFG London, owner of Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles, has become the latest UK fashion retailer hit by a cyberattack, following ASOS and amid claims against H&M.




