US telecom company reportedly finds 'tampered' chip from Super Micro Computer was made in China
The CEO of privately owned Sepio Systems found that hardware used in the data center of a US telecom company manufactured by Super Micro Computer Inc (NASDAQ:SCMI) was compromised with an implant made by China designed to conduct covert surveillance and exfiltrate corporate or government secrets, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Yossi Appleboum, the co-founder and CEO of Sepio and a former Israeli intelligence officer, said the implant was introduced at the factory in China where the company’s equipment was built. “Supermicro is a victim — so is everyone else,” he told Bloomberg.
Appleboum, who had worked in the technology unit of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps, said there are countless points in the supply chain in China where spyware can be introduced and detecting them in many cases is almost impossible. “That’s the problem with the Chinese supply chain,” he said.
READ: Super Micro Computer rejects reports Chinese spy chips in servers used by Apple and Amazon.com
Super Micro disputed the conclusions reached in the report by issuing a statement: “The security of our customers and the integrity of our products are core to our business and our company values. We take care to secure the integrity of our products throughout the manufacturing process, and supply chain security is an important topic of discussion for our industry.
“We still have no knowledge of any unauthorized components and have not been informed by any customer that such components have been found. We are dismayed that Bloomberg would give us only limited information, no documentation, and half a day to respond to these new allegations.”
The news agency said it asked for comment on Monday and gave the company 24 hours to respond.
The first Bloomberg report had said that motherboards supplied by Super Micro found their way into the servers used by Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and retail giant Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN).
Appleboum said that he was told by Western intelligence contacts that the device was made at a Supermicro subcontractor factory in Guangzhou, some 90 miles upstream from Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong. The city of Shenzhen is home to Chinese internet giants such as Tencent Holdings Ltd and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
The tampered hardware was found in a facility that had large numbers of Supermicro servers, and the telecommunication company’s technicians couldn’t answer what kind of data was pulsing through the infected one, said Appleboum, who accompanied them for a visual inspection of the machine.
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As a result of the story, the top Republican on the US Senate commerce committee, John Thune, sent a letter to the chief executives of Super Micro, Apple and Amazon seeking staff briefings from the three companies involved.
Separately, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal and Republican Senator Marco Rubio wrote to Super Micro CEO Charles Liang and asked him to provide by October 17 information about when the company first became aware of the report and whether and how it was investigated.
The two lawmakers said in their letter that the “potential infiltration of Chinese backdoors could provide a foothold for adversaries and competitors to engage in commercial espionage and launch destructive cyber attacks.”
The fresh allegations against Super Micro had seemingly no immediate impact on its shares.
The shares were trading 2% higher at $12.72 in early trade on Wednesday.
On October 3, the stock had closed at $21.40. When the report first came out last week, the stock finished at $12.60 on Thursday, having plunged 37.75% during the session..
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Most countries spy on each other, they have for a very long time in one way or another going back to ancient times.
Nothing new about this at all.
A Hasbara has the hide to talk about spying? There wouldnt even be a Israel, unless the British had captured PALESTINE from the Ottomon Turks.
Lawerence of Arabia, the spy sent from Jesus College OXFORD, to spy the terrain, make maps, stir up the bedouins, and use them to attack the Turks from the desert…….years before WW1, and so obviously a planned agenda. Gallipoli a ‘hold-down’ troops tactic. The Turks were forced to keep troops in the defence of the Dardenelles, instead of supporting the Egypt and Palestine campaigns.
Can anyone explain why the “Star of David” is on the British Colonial Flag of NIGERIA in 1900?….(48yrs before Israeli flag)
We all know China is the off-shore slave-labour factory for USA industry. The tech came from the USA itself, just fitted in China.
We DONT know, China is BANNING christianity………because they dont want their children destroyed by Hell images, LIES, or the PEDOPHILIA of its preachers.
I am NOT anti -semetic. That is like saying anti-Aramaic, or anti- early Arabic language. No, i am anti-ZIONist. ZIONism started by Anglican Rev HECHLER……the recapture of Jerusalem.
If you are Hasbara…….look up the CORPUS SEPERATUM. Legally Jerusalem belongs to the Vatican…since the 1948 UN meeting, the same year Israel came into existence, and the same year the “DEAD SEA SCROLLS” were found…..as if to authenticate the babble.
They used the Holocaust to make you want to go there…….they will use the Bible to kick you out again + UN Law.
Dome of the Rock?……higher powers are watching, and like the lightening in the east, appeared over Jerusalem in 2011.
What do you think use to land on that platform under the temple mount….on Arunahs threshing floor…..that Israeli Arkaeologists are exposing in their excavations……Yahwehs chariot? a Phoenix bird? a Red Bull with wings?
everything today is ‘made in china’ now you know why
CHINESE SPY CHIP HOAX by Jim Stone
https://www.abeldanger.org/chinese-spy-chip-hoax/
The story was fabricated by an electronics ignoramus who thought, “gee, a grain of rice is small, so I’ll just say that’s how big it is”. But the reality is that many parts in modern electronics are so small you can fit 50 in a grain of rice – surface mount resistors, diodes, and fuses are all a LOT smaller than a grain of rice – but since the story is bullshit, written by a bullshitter, “a grain of rice” will do. Whoever wrote it said that because it gave the impression of being small enough to be hidden.
CHINESE SPY CHIP HOAX by Jim Stone
https://www.abeldanger.org/chinese-spy-chip-hoax/
The story was fabricated by an electronics ignoramus who thought, “gee, a grain of rice is small, so I’ll
just say that’s how big it is”. But the reality is that many parts in modern electronics are so small you
can fit 50 in a grain of rice – surface mount resistors, diodes, and fuses are all a LOT smaller than a
grain of rice – but since the story is bullshit, written by a bullshitter, “a grain of rice” will do.
Whoever wrote it said that because it gave the impression of being small enough to be hidden.