The haul road is now a network.

Autonomous fleets passed the thousand-truck mark, espionage against mining data stayed quiet by design, and a US$264 billion sell-off will test whether security budgets hold.

In this issue

For mining CISOs, CIOs and OT leads.

Autonomous haul trucks and drills now carry a large share of production at tier-one sites, and AI is moving into the processing plant. The highest-value data, exploration results, resource models and deal plans, sits with geologists and advisers, not in the ERP. Both sit outside the classic IT perimeter.

The briefing: five signals, from 1,000 autonomous trucks to September's sell-off.
AI in practice: autonomy at scale, and when a plant optimizer becomes a control change.
Cyber front: espionage that stays quiet by design, and a hosted ERP outage that reached many sites.
The 90-day playbook: find the edges, control them, prove the fleet fails safe.
The decision desk: a worked example that counts production at risk, not incidents.
Monday's agenda: lose the haulage network mid-shift, on paper first.

Download the PDF for the full edition, including the worked example, the checklists and twelve numbered sources.

Sources & editorial notes

Evidence you can inspect.

All sources were checked on 16 October 2026. Full references and what each does and does not establish are in the PDF.

Komatsu · EV Magazine · Global Mining Review · The Rio Times · MINE · Recorded Future · Mining Weekly · The Nightly · Cyber Daily · Pronto · MINING.COM · GMG / MM-ISAC

Attacker claims a company has not confirmed are not reported. The 90-day agenda and worked example are editorial proposals, not Agents Stack customer results.