{"id":4021,"date":"2025-05-17T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/communications-backdoor-in-chinese-power-inverters-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:00:02","slug":"communications-backdoor-in-chinese-power-inverters-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/communications-backdoor-in-chinese-power-inverters-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/ar-AA1EMfHP\">weird story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was unable to determine how many solar power inverters and batteries they have looked at.<\/p>\n<p>The rogue components provide additional, undocumented communication channels that could allow firewalls to be circumvented remotely, with potentially catastrophic consequences, the two people said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is short on fact and long on innuendo. Both more details and credible named sources would help a lot here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/05\/communications-backdoor-in-chinese-power-inverters.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters This is a weird story: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said. [\u2026] Over the past nine months, undocumented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646,57,479,1115,1287,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backdoors","category-bruce-schneier","category-china","category-infrastructure","category-power","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}