Forescout
As AI-driven vulnerability and exploitation accelerate attack velocity to machine speed, Forescout is a foundational cyber defense layer that allows organizations to segment and isolate compromised systems, block lateral movement, and automate response across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. The Forescout Vistaro™ platform, powered by agentic AI and enhanced with Vedere Labs threat intelligence, delivers a Universal Zero Trust Network Access (UZTNA) architecture that integrates seamlessly with 180+ security and IT products. With Forescout Vistaro, organizations get comprehensive inventory and classification of both managed and unmanaged assets, continuous exposure management, and real-time protection including dynamic network segmentation and automated threat response.www.forescout.com
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Sep 4, 2026
Rich StroffolinoHOST
Our last story in Know or No here, the cost of porting PLC exploits.
Rich StroffolinoHOST
Uh, researchers at ForeScout published research on the cost and time takes to port exploits developed for specific PLCs to related hardware.
Rich StroffolinoHOST
They looked at two, uh, uh, s- uh, two kind of different exploits on a single PLC, and they found that having a skilled researcher guide the LLM model was far more efficient for quickly porting the vulnerability than letting the model operate in isolation.
Rich StroffolinoHOST
In one case, uh, Sonnet 4.6 I guess completed stalled out, crashed out trying to, to get there, while Opus 4.6 took eight hours to port a vulnerability at the cost of around $500 in tokens, which feels like what I use on just a monthly basis whenever I accidentally switch over to Opus.
Rich StroffolinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We reported last week about CISO warning that programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, were increasingly being targeted by threat actors, specifically in the water sector.
Rich StroffolinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, researchers at Forescout published research on the cost and time it would take to port exploits developed for specific PLCs to related hardware, focusing on an authentication buffer overflow in an FTP server and a remote code execution flaw on a WAGO PLC.
Rich StroffolinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In both cases, having a skilled researcher to guide the LLM model proved far more efficient at quickly porting the vulnerability than just having the model operating in isolation.
Rich StroffolinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The researchers noted that CloudSanit 4.6 stalled out in their tests, while Opus 4.6 still took over eight hours to develop the RCE at the cost of about $500 in API usage.
Gerald AugerHOST
It's doing some type of cyber physical function.
Gerald AugerHOST
And AI is now being used to, like everything else, discover vulnerabilities, write exploits.
Gerald AugerHOST
Essentially what they're saying here, and shout out to Forescout, they're taking known exploits right so like this exploit works on you know whatever a chevy right again i'm making i'm i'm i'm simplifying this just so that the actual point gets across instead of getting uh lost in the sauce on the details essentially there's a vulnerability that can be exploited on a chevy pickup truck and but it won't work on a Ford, but the same kind of approach makes sense.
Gerald AugerHOST
The researchers are seeing if they take that exploit and they put it through AI for a couple hundred bucks of tokens, they are able to adjust it to work on a Ford pickup truck.