“Henriques said. “The takeaway is clear: digital risk extends far beyond workstations and email servers.”

This is not a new takeaway. For many of us who have been in the control and automation industry for decades, we remember things like the Idaho National Labs demo attack and the Siemens equipment Stuxnet attack used to disrupt nuclear enrichment plants. A lot of this accessible equipment runs on old well documented protocols so rogue AI agents would have no issue being able to communicate with a lot of this equipment.