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Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars

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Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars

Forescout researchers conducted an experiment using Claude artificial intelligence (AI) to port a remote code execution (RCE) exploit across different WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) models. The process required multiple hours and hundreds of dollars in AI service costs to adapt the exploit between the systems.

Why it matters: Practitioners managing WAGO PLCs need to understand that AI can accelerate exploit development across similar industrial control system (ICS) devices, increasing the risk that security gaps in one model expose others without significant attacker investment.

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