[Thread] A breakdown of significant issues with Bloomberg's recent Supermicro story, which may have relied on misunderstandings of an FBI briefing by a source
New details on a (previously retracted) hacking campaign involving Supermicro Inc, BIOS backdoors added to motherboards, hardware implants installed and BIOS firmware update routines compromised in targeted attacks. US believes Lenovo also compromised by attacks linked to China. …
“A large amount of Lenovo laptops were sold to the U.S. military that had a chip encrypted on the motherboard that would record all the data that was being inputted into that laptop and send it back to China” https://www.bloomberg.com/...