Operation Cairn

A threat researcher reports finding a live, custom-built attack-orchestration platform — "Cairn" — that lets an LLM run intrusions end-to-end with no human in the loop per session: one Docker/Kali container per victim, a fact-graph that remembers what was tried, 229,828 AI-dispatched attack events across 13 days, and a ShellShock-over-SMTP vector that actually landed. Here is what was reported, what is genuinely new (a model reading its own prior work), the IOCs and CVEs involved, and the defences that matter — treated as a single-source disclosure, not yet corroborated by major vendors.