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‘Rogue’ devices found in Chinese solar inverters raises cybersecurity alarm in Europe (www.pv-tech.org)
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US energy officials have found unexplained communication equipment inside some Chinese-made inverter devices.

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Reuters reported the presence of undocumented and “rogue” communication devices in a number of Chinese-made solar inverters. These could potentially introduce unregulated and undocumented remote communication channels to the inverters, by which an actor could remotely bypass the cybersecurity firewalls that utility companies use to prevent direct communication back to China.

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I guess that security researchers will be taking apart a lot of inverters in the near future.

Then we'll know.

Considering previous incidents, e.g. the cyber-sabotage performed in Poland by a train repair company Newag to prevent third party repairs, this kind of matters should be taken seriously. Back doors and logic bombs have been done before, and will be regularly re-visited as soon as people forget about their risk.