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Though many researchers proposed Artificial-Intelligence-based detection strategies, identification of the location of the attack is not considered by these strategies. To overcome this drawback, this paper proposes a novel Convolution extreme gradient boosting (ConvXGBoost) method for not only detecting Denial of Service (DoS) and False Data Injection (FDI) attacks but also identifying the location and component of the system that was compromised. The proposed model is compared with the existing Convolution Neural Network (CNN) and decision tree (DT) strategies. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for both the smart PV and PV fuel cell (PV-FC) systems. For example, the proposed model is efficient with an accuracy of 99.25% compared to the 97.76% of CNN and 99.12% of DT during a DoS attack on a smart PV system. 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