Smoke and Mirrors: Open-Source OT Malware Sandbox

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Vasilis Mavroudis

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Jun 2, 2025, 12:05:52 PMJun 2

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Hi all,

I am sharing a technical update from our team at the Alan Turing Institute, part of our ongoing work under the Defence and National Security Grand Challenge.

In this post, Airgapped No More – May 2025 Snapshot, we outline how we use AI to advance cyber defence in critical national infrastructure environments. A few things we cover:

Why traditional IT security tools fail in critical infrastructure
How our system fakes entire OT networks using LLM-based responders
The architecture for our protocol-aware deception at Layer 2

This is part of our broader mission to shift cyber risk asymmetry in favour of defenders, especially those protecting fragile, under-resourced infrastructure. If you're working on OT security, malware analysis, or AI safety, we'd love your feedback or to collaborate.

Read the update: https://airgapped.substack.com/p/update-may-2025-technical-snapshot
Code access: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/smoke-and-mirrors