{"slug": "ai-agent-exposes-severe-bugs-in-industrial-control-software", "title": "AI Agent Exposes Severe Bugs in Industrial Control Software", "summary": "An autonomous AI agent named Cipher uncovered four severe bugs in the industrial control software EPICS Base in three hours and 49 minutes without human intervention, prompting the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to warn organizations to update to the latest version to avoid denial-of-service, memory corruption, and remote code execution attacks. The CISA warning follows the agent's findings in EPICS Base.", "body_md": "In just three hours and 49 minutes, an autonomous AI agent called Cipher uncovered four severe bugs in industrial control software, EPICS Base, without any human intervention. The discovery has prompted a warning from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, urging organizations to update to the latest version to avoid potential denial-of-service, memory corruption, and remote code execution attacks.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agent-exposes-severe-bugs-in-industrial-control-software", "canonical_source": "https://osintsights.com/ai-agent-exposes-severe-bugs-in-industrial-control-software", "published_at": "2026-10-27 19:53:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-27 20:14:03.168354+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Cipher", "EPICS Base", "Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agent-exposes-severe-bugs-in-industrial-control-software", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agent-exposes-severe-bugs-in-industrial-control-software.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agent-exposes-severe-bugs-in-industrial-control-software.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agent-exposes-severe-bugs-in-industrial-control-software.jsonld"}}