TRUE, BUTHeadline Over Filing
The $50 is an estimate, not a bill
The $50 is an estimate built from a $5-per-task guess and a 10% success rate, and no bill appears in the record.
“One attacker used AI agents to compromise 100+ companies at a cost of $50 per website.”
15 receipts5 support4 refute6 context
NorForge's report gives about $5 per task and a roughly 10% success rate, with 'considerable' uncertainty and no real token numbers. The 100+ count comes from Reuters and is not independently verified by The Next Web.
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Receipts
- Supports aiweekly.co:
counted more than 100 breached corporate sites against 1,200+ attempted, at roughly $50 of tokens per successful hack.
- Supports aiweekly.co:
From there the agents worked unsupervised.
- Context thenextweb.com:
about $5,000 worth of tokens, or roughly $50 per successful hack. That is a rough estimate.
- Context thenextweb.com:
had tried to break into more than 1,200 sites, according to Reuters.
- Refutes thenextweb.com:
TNW has not independently verified the intrusions.
- Context thenextweb.com:
Reuters could not establish how much data, if any, the hackers took.
- Context thenextweb.com:
Deere told Reuters it had taken remediation steps and had no sign that anyone accessed sensitive information.
- Supports thenextweb.com:
Fagerland told Reuters he had assumed hacking agents would still need at least some supervision.
- Refutes norforge.com:
We dont have actual numbers on token usage
- Refutes norforge.com:
We estimate the average cost of a task to end up around $5 if one includes unsuccessful, early ending projects.
- Context norforge.com:
average success rate is hovering around 10%, with many of the remaining tasks achieving partial goals
- Refutes norforge.com:
The uncertainty here is however considerable, and numbers could be off by a clear margin.
- Context norforge.com:
A human operator can also add their own hints to the same blackboard.
- Supports norforge.com:
The URL did indeed serve an uploader webshell.
- Supports norforge.com:
Even so, there's no doubt that this is relatively cheap.
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