US energy officials have found unexplained communication equipment inside some Chinese-made inverter devices.

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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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  • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
    9·
    19 hours ago

    Fronius, SMA, Victron.

    The unfortunate bit is that apparently e.g. Huawei inverters are extremely reliable, whereas e.g. cheaper SMA models are not.

      • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        In case you’re referring to the comment by HowRu68 above, I don’t think that those software vulns are related to this issue at all.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      19 hours ago

      I wonder if an incentive to be well built and reliable ends up being the fact they are strategic assets that can be “called into service” for decades.

      This is some conspiracy brain thinking, but… they did find secret communication devices…