Tiny chips, which were introduced in the American computer equipment manufactured in China, were used in efforts by Beijing to steal U.S. technology secrets, said in a report published on Thursday. Bloomberg claims that these chips the size of a grain of rice was supplied along with the equipment, which was produced for Amazon, which first informed the us government, and Apple, and other companies and government agencies. Bloomberg reported that a secret three-year investigation that is still ongoing, allowed the spies to create a “hidden doorway” of computer hardware, the hardware method which would be more difficult to detect than hacking software.
Citing unnamed US officials, Bloomberg says that in the operation of the chip placement on the equipment involved the division of the people’s liberation army of China. The chips were placed in China on the American Supermicro Computer.
China steals American secrets?
Supermicro, according to Bloomberg, also manufactures equipment for the data centers of the Ministry of defence for unmanned operations of the CIA and electrical systems of Navy ships. Amazon has found a problem, when it acquired the software firm Elemental and began a safety review of equipment developed for Elemental California Supermicro.
Spy chips was done to the motherboard is the nerve centers of computer equipment used in data centers Apple Amazon Web Services and other companies. Apple said that “never found malicious chips”, “manipulations with the hardware” or “vulnerability purposely embedded in any server”.
Supermicro has not commented on the incident, but denies any charges of espionage or fraud.
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China accused of stealing secrets from American technogiant
Ilya Hel