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AI Security

AI Took Eight Hours and $500 to Copy a Hacking Tool Onto a Second Industrial Controller

Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to adapt a known exploit for water-sector control hardware. It worked, eventually, but it also permanently destroyed one of the test devices.

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AI Security

This Week in AI Security: Rogue Packages, PLC Hacks by Chatbot, and Leaky Stripe Keys

A weekly roundup of the AI and infrastructure security stories that actually matter, translated into plain English.

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Threat Intelligence

US agencies warn hackers are using AI to break into Siemens factory controllers

CISA, NSA, FBI, DOE and EPA say attackers are scanning the internet for exposed Siemens S7 PLCs and running AI-written scripts dressed up as monitoring tools.

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Threat Intelligence

Thousands of Rockwell Controllers Sit Exposed Online, With 22 in US Water Attack Cities

Security firm Forescout counted 4,407 industrial controllers reachable from the open internet, and found a small cluster in the same towns recently hit by attacks on water systems.

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Threat Intelligence

The criminals behind the Minnesota water attacks may have a better backup of your plant than you do

Hackers hit more than 30 small water utilities in two days. The most alarming detail isn't how they got in, it's that they may have walked out with the only complete copy of control logic the operators ever had.

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Threat Intelligence

CISA Warns Hackers Are Breaking Into Water Plant Controllers Left Exposed on the Internet

The US cyber agency says attackers are locking operators out of the small industrial computers that run water systems, forcing boil-water notices and manual operations.

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Vulnerabilities

Siemens flags hundreds of Linux flaws in its S7-1500 MFP factory controllers

The firmware inside a widely used industrial controller ships with a Linux subsystem carrying more than 300 unpatched CVEs. Siemens says a fix is coming.

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