Risky Business #850 -- Widespread AI-enabled attacks target Siemens PLCs
Risky Business reports Iranian actors downed a UK power generator and AI-enabled campaigns are actively targeting Siemens PLCs in US critical sectors — a direct escalation in OT threat sophistication with immediate NIS2 implications for European operators.
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s NCSC, to talk through the week’s news, including:
Iranian hackers take down a small-scale power generator in the UK Siemens PLCs in critical US sectors are also being targeted… We’re stumped on who could be behind that one, too. Microsoft fixed a CVSS 10 deserialisation bug in Entra before someone else found it and owned the planet Prompt injection isn’t going away LLMs
Editorial Analysis
AI-augmented OT attacks against industrial control systems mark a capability leap that European critical-infrastructure operators under NIS2 must urgently address.
Conduct an emergency review of Siemens PLC environments, validate IT/OT segmentation, and update incident response plans for AI-assisted ICS attacks.
AI-enabled attacks are hitting industrial control systems in the UK and US — European operators face the same threat under NIS2 obligations.
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