Extortionists sent ASOS app users an apparently genuine ASOS push alert on October 6 claiming they had fully compromised the retailer's Snowflake instance. The alert is the only access anyone outside ASOS has seen; the entry route and any data taken are unknown.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives70
- Confidence35
Forescout found post-quantum-capable SSH on 6% of IoMT and 16% of medical OT devices in a 2.5 million-device study of over 50 healthcare organizations. With long device lifecycles and few upgrade paths, hospitals are left planning around segmentation.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
The Sept. 22 study of 2.5 million devices in 209 organizations found cameras alone in 51 of 2,266 camera segments, and Black Hills Information Security's John Strand says the true isolation rate is lower.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 18%
- Operator
- Operator 74%
- Investor
- Investor 8%
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives76
- Confidence70
Vedere Labs did get Claude Code to move a working exploit onto a second WAGO controller, and the price of doing it puts a measurable ceiling under the pitch that AI now writes OT exploits at machine speed.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
Forescout's Vedere Labs ported a known WAGO exploit to a new model with Claude and Ghidra, tracking every dollar and human correction. A single bad write to flash memory bricked the target PLC for good.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives65
- Confidence40
Minnesota's 30-plus plants and the FBI's seven states point at small municipal operators, and at a suspected Iranian campaign that no longer looks opportunistic.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence52