CAN AI CREATE PLC ATTACKS? YES, BUT IT'S NOT THAT EASY YET

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Forescout used an AI model to port an RCE exploit from a WAGO 750-852 PLC to a 750-831 PLC running the same vulnerable Nucleus FTP server (CVE-2021-31886). The AI needed constant human guidance: correcting false leads, supplying disassembly context, and running Ghidra scripts it wrote itself. The final exploit stage took 8 hours 32 minutes and cost $535.74 in API tokens. A follow-up attempt to build a C2 implant bricked the PLC. Once code execution worked, the AI wrote working ICMP and UDP payloads within minutes.