White House bans foreign-made equipment for power generation over cyber backdoor concerns

The report covers a Trump administration executive order banning foreign-made bulk-power system equipment due to concerns that foreign actors are exploiting vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure; it cites recent incidents — cyberattacks on water utilities across at least 12 states, malicious activity affecting over 100 internet-exposed water systems, a disrupted Chinese botnet tied to breaches of federal agencies, and a UK power plant outage — and warns about growing AI-enabled threats while directing agencies to inventory, isolate, monitor, or replace at-risk equipment and produce rules within 120 days.