DERs & Microgrids at Risk: How Adversaries Exploit Distributed Energy
Summary: Dragos reports that adversary groups ranging from VOLTZITE to botnet and ransomware operators are already targeting distributed energy resources and microgrids, which combine solar, wind, battery storage, and smart inverters and are increasingly adopted by utilities, manufacturers, oil and gas operators, and data centers. Dragos Intelligence says it has observed these groups probing DER and microgrid environments, exploiting internet-exposed controllers, insecure vendor remote access, and unmonitored industrial protocols.
What you should know: The same remote access, real-time data, and automation that make microgrids useful are the paths adversaries use, and Dragos states the outcome of compromise is business disruption - not just data loss - for operators who adopted these systems for uptime.
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