US warns of AI-assisted targeting of Siemens PLCs

The U.S. government has warned that threat actors are using AI-generated exploit scripts against internet-exposed Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers used in water, energy and manufacturing. According to the warning summarized by The Hacker News, actors use scanning services to identify exposed or poorly segmented systems, then deploy scripts disguised as monitoring tools to find exploits. The agencies said attackers are also using read access to understand environments and prepare for possible disruptive write operations.