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China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies
NSA, CISA, and FBI warn DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI firms ran industrial-scale distillation of U.S. frontier models, threatening U.S. AI leadership.
A joint NSA, CISA, and FBI Cybersecurity Advisory (AA26-251A) says China-based firms DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from U.S. frontier models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, likely with Chinese government knowledge. Campaigns running since at least late 2024 used native APIs, cloud providers, third-party aggregators, gray-market proxy "transfer stations", and shared premium subscriptions to bypass geographic restrictions, evade safeguards, and violate providers' terms of use. The agencies recommend detecting anomalous prompts, accounts, and usage patterns; subtly altering responses to suspected distillers; and cross-organization intelligence sharing. They also call DeepSeek's publicly cited $5.6M training cost misleading because it excludes data acquired through distillation.
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US agencies warn of AI-powered attacks on Siemens industrial controllers
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA warn threat actors use AI-assisted scripts and snap7 libraries to access internet-exposed Siemens S7 PLCs in critical infrastructure sectors.
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA issued a joint advisory warning that threat actors combine open-source snap7.dll/python-snap7 libraries with AI-generated scripts to gain read/write access to Siemens S7-200 through S7-1500 PLCs over the S7comm protocol. Actors use Censys and ZoomEye to find internet-exposed devices and abuse default or weak credentials, with activity assessed as persistent reconnaissance and positioning for future write operations. Agencies urge device inventory, patching, removing PLCs from the internet, and hardening; the pattern resembles Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers targeting of Rockwell, Schneider, and Siemens PLCs.
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Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Cisco fixed a stored cross-site scripting flaw in Industrial Ethernet 1000 series switches exploitable by authenticated remote users.
Insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the web-based management interface of Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches allows stored XSS. An authenticated remote attacker can inject malicious code into specific interface pages and execute arbitrary script in another user's context. Exploitation requires valid credentials; Cisco has released software updates.
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Schneider Electric SCADAPack x70 Products
CISA advisory: Schneider Electric SCADAPack x70 RTUs contain CVE-2026-81861, an insufficiently protected credentials flaw allowing unauthorized access to RTU configuration.
CISA advisory ICSA-26-258-04 discloses CVE-2026-81861 affecting all versions of Schneider Electric SCADAPack 47x, 47xi, 47xd, 470R, 57x, 3xx, and 32 remote terminal units. The CWE-522 insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability could expose authentication information and permit unauthorized access to RTU configuration through the Secure Lock functionality. The flaw carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (medium), and the products are deployed worldwide in critical manufacturing and energy sectors. Abhinav Agarwal reported the vulnerability to CISA.
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Schneider Electric Easergy, EcoStruxture, PowerLogic, and Saitel Products (Update A)
CISA updated ICSA-26-169-07: CVE-2026-4827 (CVSS 8.3) insufficient entropy enables session hijacking across dozens of Schneider Electric grid products; fixes available.
CISA republished advisory ICSA-26-169-07 (Update A) for CVE-2026-4827, CWE-331 insufficient entropy in session management, scored CVSS 8.3. Affected lines include Easergy MiCOM relays and C5, EcoStruxure Power Automation (EPAS-GTW, EPAS-UI, iPMFLS), EcoStruxure Power Operation, PowerLogic P5/P7/T300/T500, and Saitel DP/T150 RTUs, with dozens of fixed versions listed. Successful exploitation could enable session hijacking and unauthorized operations on systems in energy, chemical, critical manufacturing, and water sectors. Fixes are available; no exploitation is reported.
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Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches Denial of Service Vulnerability
Cisco released a fix for a management-plane flooding DoS in IE-1000 switches that can make the device manager, SSH, or API inaccessible.
Insufficient protection against management plane flooding in Cisco Industrial Ethernet 1000 Series Switches allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to send high-rate ICMP, SSH, or HTTP traffic, raising CPU usage and causing a denial-of-service condition on the device manager web GUI, SSH, or API. Data traffic through the device is not affected. Cisco has released software updates to address the issue.
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Siemens Teamcenter
Reflected XSS in Siemens Teamcenter /auth/ redirect flow lets unauthenticated attackers inject JavaScript into authenticated sessions (CVE-2026-58113).
CISA republished Siemens advisory SSA-157465 for CVE-2026-58113, a reflected cross-site scripting flaw (CVSS 6.1) in the /auth/ authentication redirect flow of Siemens Teamcenter V2412, V2506, V2512, and V2606. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a URL that injects arbitrary JavaScript into an authenticated user's browser, enabling data theft or actions within the victim's Teamcenter session. Fixed versions are available for all affected releases; Enzo Alvarez of Bishop Fox reported the vulnerability.
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AI-fueled attacks pose ‘active threat’ to water, other sectors, U.S. agencies warn
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA warn hackers are using AI-generated scripts to actively attack Siemens S7 PLCs across critical-infrastructure sectors.
A joint cybersecurity advisory from the NSA, CISA, FBI, Department of Energy and EPA warns of an active threat campaign targeting water, food, energy, chemical, manufacturing and commercial facilities via Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers. The actors use internet scanning to find exposed or poorly protected PLCs, then deploy AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools, an OT first that dramatically lowers the expertise required for ICS attacks. Siemens says no new S7 vulnerabilities are involved, only exploitation of misconfigurations, and it is coordinating with CISA's ProductCERT. The warning follows a joint FBI-EPA advisory confirming attacks at water and wastewater utilities in at least 12 states since July 27.
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