Forescout uses Claude AI to port PLC exploit in hours

Forescout's Vedere Labs used Anthropic's Claude to port an RCE exploit between WAGO PLC models, succeeding after hours of researcher oversight and hundreds of dollars in API costs. Progress stalled until switching from Claude Sonnet 4.6 to Claude Opus 4.6, after which Claude produced two working payloads within 12 minutes.
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