Rebadged, Relabeled, Rooted: Pwnage via Solar Supply Chain
Anthony Rose, Jake Krasnov
DEF CON 33 · Day 1 · Main Stage
Solar energy infrastructure is expanding rapidly across residential, commercial, and utility scales — but its supply chain is riddled with security problems that most buyers never think to ask about.
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Solar supply chain rebadging creates a single OEM firmware vulnerability that propagates across dozens of brands — unauthenticated RCE, hardcoded creds, no-signature OTA updates, and Shodan says thousands are internet-exposed right now.