Forescout Research Tests Whether AI Can Create PLC Attacks

Summary

Forescout's Vedere Labs has conducted research exploring the potential for AI to simplify the creation of cyberattacks targeting industrial control systems. The study specifically investigated whether artificial intelligence could adapt a known remote code execution (RCE) exploit, originally designed for one type of programmable logic controller (PLC), to be effective against a different PLC. This research aims to understand how AI might lower the barrier to entry for sophisticated OT attacks.

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