TL;DR la link-ul de mai sus:
Unitatea specializată în hack-uri hardware a armatei chineze infiltrează 4 fabrici din China care produc plăci de bază pentru Supermicro.
Țintit, sunt alterate plăci de bază care ajung la Amazon și la Apple, printre alte 30 de companii americane de top.
La ce folosește Apple serverele Supermicro respective ?
This project, known internally as Ledbelly, was designed to make the search function for Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, faster, according to the three senior Apple insiders.
Zău, citiți articolul, e demențial.
In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached
The illicit chips could do all this because they were connected to the baseboard management controller, a kind of superchip that administrators use to remotely log in to problematic servers, giving them access to the most sensitive code even on machines that have crashed or are turned off.
