U.S. agencies including the NSA, CISA, FBI, and the Energy and Environmental Protection Agency issued a joint warning Wednesday about hackers using AI-generated scripts to attack critical infrastructure — water, food, energy, chemical, and manufacturing sectors.
The attackers are targeting Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers, using AI to rapidly develop exploitation tools that once required significant technical skill. The agencies called it an "active threat," not a theoretical one. Attacks could disrupt industrial processes, trigger safety incidents, or expose sensitive data.
Experts flagged this as the first known CISA advisory explicitly citing AI-generated scripts targeting operational technology systems.
Source: CyberScoop