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@08:50AM from the standing-by-the-report dept. Supermicro chips and software were tampered with by Chinese operatives in the past decade, Bloomberg reported Friday, doubling down on its 2018 report that was widely disputed by several tech giants and government agencies. Today's report says that U.S. security and defense officials knew of the hack but kept it secret in an effort to learn more about China's hacking capabilities. From the report: Bloomberg Businessweek first reported on China's meddling with Supermicro products in October 2018, in an article that focused on accounts of added malicious chips found on server motherboards in 2015. That...
