A low-skill, Russian-speaking hacker used commercial AI services to breach over 600 enterprise firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks. No zero-days required. Amazon just showed us what the automation of mediocrity looks like at scale.

Links & Resources

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ai-augmented-threat-actor-accesses-fortigate-devices-at-scale/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazon-ai-assisted-hacker-breached-600-fortigate-firewalls-in-5-weeks/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/ai-assisted-threat-actor-compromises.html
• https://cybersecuritynews.com/600-fortigate-devices-hacked/
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-february-20-2026/
• https://cybersecuritynews.com/cloudflare-down-6-hour-of-massive-global-service-outage/
• https://cybersecuritynews.com/cybersecurity-news-weekly/