S2 · 05/2017 · ABB
| Company | ABB |
| Category | machinery oem |
| Type | cyber |
| Date | 05/2017 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S2 (minor injury or single-unit damage) |
| Scale | 1 robot (research demonstration) |
| Confidence | high |
| Verification | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
| Source | Help Net Security |
Politecnico di Milano and Trend Micro researchers demonstrated exploiting vulnerabilities in an ABB IRB140 robot (IRC5 controller, Windows CE FlexPendant) to alter control parameters and cause unexpected/inaccurate movements, showing the attack could damage the robot, degrade manufactured parts, or injure nearby workers; a lab demonstration, not an in-the-wild exploit. ABB developed a mitigation plan in response.