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① A Chinese military unit
designed and manufactured
microchips as small as
a sharpened pencil tip.
Some of the chips wer
built to look like signal
conditioning couplers,
they incorporated mem
networking capability,
suicient processing p
for an attack.
② The microchips were
inserted at Chinese
factories that supplied
Supermicro, one of the
world’s biggest sellers of
server motherboards.
⑤When a server
installed and switc
the microchip alte
operating system’
could accept mod
The chip could als
computers contro
attackers in searc
instructions and c
How the Hack Worked, According to U.S. Officials
Bloomberg Businessweek
October 8, 2018
motherboards were built
into servers assembled
by Supermicro.
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④ The sabotaged servers
made their way inside data
centers operated by dozens
of companies.