Devices that may not be easily patched, especially industrial systems will not do as well in a world where LLMs are finding exploits. Atleast with other software the defending side can use LLMs and stay up to date in the arms race.
Anything that can be run offline should be airgapped and you still have to hope you dont get Stuxnetted.
This isn't unprecedented at all, several US bases were hit with this same thing in the last couple months. These companies security officers just aren't paying attention.
In the Netherlands and belgium Albert Heijn supposedly got hacked today https://nieuws.ah.nl/mediastatement-inzake-it-incident/
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/economie/artikel/5658604/chaos-alb...
Devices that may not be easily patched, especially industrial systems will not do as well in a world where LLMs are finding exploits. Atleast with other software the defending side can use LLMs and stay up to date in the arms race.
Anything that can be run offline should be airgapped and you still have to hope you dont get Stuxnetted.
Someone possibly did the same to US military freezers earlier this year: https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...
Related: https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-de...
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304
This isn't unprecedented at all, several US bases were hit with this same thing in the last couple months. These companies security officers just aren't paying attention.