Six Incidents: A Deep Dive into Industrial Cyber Attacks

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 28, 2026 · 1h 1m

Fewer than ten pieces of malware have ever been built to manipulate industrial processes, yet each one changed how engineers defend plants. Mirela Constantin and Tobias Ferreira (both fictional) take a plant's operations team through how attackers got in, what they did to the physics, what stopped them, and what that plant would see if it happened tonight. It covers centrifuges spun to 1,410 Hz, breakers opened by a mouse that moved on its own, a safety controller that tripped because three processors disagreed, a pipeline shut by a billing system, intruders who lived off the land for five…