Speculation warning, since no devices were directly referenced... These setups use PLCs to control water circulation, ventilation actuators, augers, and the li

Speculation warning, since no devices were directly referenced... These setups use PLCs to control water circulation, ventilation actuators, augers, and the like. I've even seen Honey Bee feeding set up with PLC interfaces just because they're common and easy. But if they're on the internet with a dashboard, they are likely the "soft belly" as we've seen in lots of industrial ransomware incidents. I've worked in similar ( not the same sector ) automation control environments where the programmers involved live in time-crunch "copy-pasta, change the labels" environments and security is relegated to network models. How many control systems have been impacted by scope creep and are now on the network when they weren't initially? How many of those are on the internet because someone wanted access from their iPad? I'm fairly bothered that the only hope I have in some of the equipment I've worked on is that if it is accessible from the internet one day, it has far too many indistinguishable peers to be a "particular" target and it would take a lot of research to determine any value.