# AI Agent Exposes Severe Bugs in Industrial Control Software > Source: > Published: 2026-10-27 19:53:40+00:00 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.