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The Register · October 28, 2026 · On the brief until November 11, 2026

AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours

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Autonomously finding and testing software vulnerabilities

An autonomous AI agent discovered and validated four severe vulnerabilities in the EPICS industrial control toolkit in under four hours. The demonstration shows that attackers no longer need specialized domain expertise to uncover flaws that can disrupt physical experimental facilities.

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Teams can debate how to protect operational technology when automated tools eliminate the security once provided by system obscurity and domain complexity.

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