Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200

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https://www.wired.com/story/plant-spy-chips-hardware-supermicro-cheap-proof-of-concept/

A new proof-of-concept hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips inside IT equipment.
More than a year has passed since Bloomberg Businessweek grabbed the lapels of the cybersecurity world with a bombshell claim: that Supermicro motherboards in servers used by major tech firms, including Apple and Amazon, had been stealthily implanted with a chip the size of a rice grain that allowed Chinese hackers to spy deep into those networks. Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro all vehemently denied the report. The NSA dismissed it as a false alarm. The Defcon hacker conference awarded it two Pwnie Awards, for "most overhyped bug" and "most epic fail." And no follow-up reporting has yet affirmed its central premise.

Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200

A new proof-of-concept hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips inside IT equipment.

www.wired.com

 

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Ain't this some

LI company busted for illegally selling Chinese-made products to US military

A Long Island security company has been busted for duping U.S. military forces into spending millions on vulnerable Chinese-made equipment by slapping “Made in USA” labels on its produc…

nypost.com

Saw this on the news just now, maybe some of you did too? Hope the culprits do some serious time.

I hope it was ok to add this to your thread, Correlate, and that you don't mind. There were no other open threads to tack this onto, it seems.