AI Approaches Ability to Exploit Operational Technology, Threatening Critical Infrastructure

Summary

Forescout researchers demonstrated that AI can port RCE exploits to PLCs, achieving DoS and shellcode execution, raising concerns for critical infrastructure. While currently impractical for cybercriminals due to high cost and effort, nation-state actors remain a threat, as exemplified by the hypothetical 2025 Sandworm attack on Poland's power grid.