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ABB

Products: Cobot, Industrial arm. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 4.4/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 6 of 7 among Machinery OEM companies with incidents (130 tracked).

Analyst brief

ABB's record contains one 2017 entry: a researcher-demonstrated remote hack of an ABB IRB140 industrial robot shown to cause unsafe physical motion, classified as a cyber incident at severity 2. ABB's index of 4.4 ranks 6 of 7 companies in Machinery OEM with incident history. The event originates from third-party security research rather than a field failure or regulatory action, and the record shows a single disclosed vulnerability rather than an operational pattern.

Risk index

4.4/100RobotRisk index
12.6/100Median index across the 7 Machinery OEM companies with incident history (130 tracked, 123 with none)
6 of 7Rank in Machinery OEM (of 7 with incident history)
LowRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
cyber1100%

Unique incident list

1 unique incident on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S2~May 2017 cyber Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movement · 1 robot (research demonstration) Help Net Security
S2 ~May 2017 · cyber · Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movement
Location not specified1 supporting source rowhigh confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S2~May 2017Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movementHelp Net Security

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