Forensic Investigation of A Hacked Industrial Robot
Abstract
Industrial robots are playing a key role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). This latest generation of robots incorporates smart technologies and networking to support machine-to-machine and machine-to-human communications, and Internet of Things integration for advanced automation. The enhanced connectivity increases the attack surface of industrial robots, providing hackers with more attack options. Cyber attacks on industrial robots not only bring about economic losses to manufacturers, such as damage to production lines, but they can also cause injuries to workers, even deaths.This chapter describes a digital forensic investigation of a hacked Universal Robots UR3 collaborative robot. Network and physical attacks were executed, following which a digital forensic investigation of the hacked robot was conducted, including forensic image acquisition and detailed data analysis.
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