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well cyber security researchers claim
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around 20% of the world's solar power
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output has been vulnerable to a Cyber
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attack after experts were able to gain
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access to solar panel systems used
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overseas and in Australia now for more
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on this I am joined by bton Batu who is
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the director of threat research and
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Reporting at Bit Defender can you start
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by telling us what did your researchers
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discover good afternoon uh we discovered
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a series of vulnerabilities in a cloud
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infrastructure that helps people get
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connected to uh their own inverters at
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home so uh What uh what happened was
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that we were able to hijack devices that
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would not belong to us uh and we uh
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started uh looking at how big this
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infrastructure is uh soon after that we
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realized that we were we had a potential
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access to 2.2 million installations uh
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ranging from home setups with one or two
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solar panels up until large solar parks
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that produce significant energy uh in
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total we're speaking about 195 GW of
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solar power production that we had
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discretionary access um even if we were
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not the owners of those installations
