Security News > 2018 > October > Report: Chinese Spy Chip Backdoored US Defense, Tech Firms
2018-10-05 09:18
If Accurate, Bloomberg Report Would Mark a New Era of Mass Hardware CompromiseDid the Chinese government pull off one of the most secretive hardware hacks of all time? That's what information security experts are pondering after a Bloomberg report has detailed an espionage operation that purportedly planted a tiny spying chip on widely distributed server motherboards.
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