A financially motivated, unsophisticated threat actor used generative AI to compromise over 600 FortiGate firewalls across more than 55 countries. The attacks succeeded by exploiting exposed management ports and weak credentials, not software vulnerabilities, with AI helping automate reconnaissance, tool creation, and data parsing. The actor specifically targeted credentials and backup infrastructure, like Veeam servers, to enable potential ransomware attacks. This incident demonstrates how AI is lowering the technical barrier, allowing less skilled individuals to achieve attack scale previously requiring larger teams.