New information is published by Bloomberg on the possible case of espionage of China to companies of the United States.
This year is being especially critical for computer security and privacy and that is Specter, Meltdown, Facebook, Google+ and a long list of vulnerabilities and hacks. The most recent has been the one allegedly uncovered by Bloomberg, which indicates that Apple and Amazon, among others, have been victims of industrial espionage by China installing special chips inside Supermicro's servers. All have denied the accusation, but the story seems not to have ended, far from it.
New chapter of China's spying on US companies according to Bloomberg
Now this medium returns to give more information about this security attack and has presented evidence regarding the modifications made to the Supermicro hardware by some infiltrated operatives in charge of introducing these spy chips in the United States. Bloomberg He assures that "a large telecommunications company in the United States" of which he has not given more data has found some manipulated components in the servers of the Supermicro company.
Yosi Appleboum (nice coincidence) who is a cybersecurity researcher says that 'one of the servers gave an unusual communication signal' that he has investigated the hardware of these servers. The investigation would have revealed a tiny chip that was hidden in one of the Ethernet cables that is inside the servers. Appleboum notes that the server in question had been tampered with in the city of Guangzhou, in China, before leaving for the United States.
Logically, all the US telecommunications companies have flatly denied the information published by Bloomberg and that is that if it is uncovered it could represent a very serious case of espionage and increase tensions between the two giants.
Engadget on the other hand, it assures that AT&T and Sprint companies do not use Supermicro hardware, while on the other hand T-Mobile, Verizon, CenturyLink and Comcast have denied suffering any kind of spying from China.
