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It seems likely numerous agencies are attempting to undermine hardware security by placing software-based backdoors or hardware-based vulnerabilities inside shipping systems.

Many enterprises may already have been penetrated by some form of APT attack. Perpetrators could be highly organized criminals or state-sponsored entities.

It is highly probable that sophisticated attempts to place digital spies inside enterprise systems are already taking place.

True or false, I think the report illustrates several matters that should inform any enterprise security professional’s outlook: It would not be unusual for it to decline comment on grounds of "national security." That it has commented suggests (as the company states) that it is not under any form of gagging order on this matter - which I’d imagine it would be if this story were true. With that in mind, I find it difficult to understand why the company has chosen to comment on this occasion. I’ve seen claims come, and I’ve seen claims go. “Where did this alleged report come from? Who commissioned it? Who wrote it? Should we trust who claims to have seen it?” asks McCarthy. The story also hinges on a report that witnesses told Bloomberg exists but the reporters do not claim to have seen. If the rogue processor exists at all, why wouldn’t similar attempts also be made against Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle? Were contacts at those companies asked about this story? To what extent have these claims emerged from competitors of the named firms who may also have attended that meeting? I can’t help but wonder why it has no input from other major tech companies that would be more likely to be impacted, given their cloud-based enterprise offerings. Bloomberg has taken this story and added evidence garnered from other sources to craft its claims, in which it cites anonymous insiders from Apple, Amazon, and U.S. The primary source seems to come from a tech/government meeting of a few dozen people that took place in 2015. It seems more likely they would than that they wouldn’t.

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I can’t help but think that if government spies went to the trouble and expense of creating a spy chip like the one described in the report, then they’d be likely to also attempt to install it into servers belonging to other major companies, such as Microsoft or Google. His conclusion is that while the exploit may be possible, it is extremely complex and the rogue chip described in the report would be a technically highly complex piece of hardware to create. The Register’s Kieren McCarthy has an interesting take on the physical capabilities of the kind of chip described by Bloomberg. It would seems strange that neither Apple nor Amazon would notice the unusual network activity that would be generated by a processor hack like this. This would also include attempts to insert malware (or fake components) inside new machines it placed inside its networks, such as Bloomberg’s claimed “spy chips.” The company says it works to “constantly fortify” itself against increasingly sophisticated attacks. This is why strategically important entities like Apple have their own incident response teams tasked with monitoring their systems for any signs of the kind of data exfiltration mentioned in this report.Īpple is well aware of the nature of an advanced persistent threat (APT) in which an intruder has found a way to lurk surreptitiously inside a company’s systems to steal secrets and intellectual property. Security is always being tested in many different ways. Governments spy on their own people and on each other.

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The world is full of hackers, cyber criminals, and spies. The denials are so strenuous that it seems reasonable to think that if the Bloomberg report does turn out to be true, then all three tech firms must be telling untruths.

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Not only will those rebuttals have gone through a rigorous legal screening process to ensure veracity, but the fact that government agencies may also have been hit means the legal side of this matter must be a high-stakes game.Īpple’s statement concedes a previously reported 2016 incident when the company found an infected driver on a single Super Micro server in one of its labs, but it said this was found to be “accidental and not a targeted attack against Apple.” Everyone denies the claimsĪpple, Amazon, and Super Micro have all issued strongly worded statements in which they refute these allegations (above). government Department of Homeland Security also supports Apple and Amazon's denials of these claims. government's National Cyber Security Center backs Apple and Amazon's denials. The reporters claim to have a number of witnesses to these events, though all parties strenuously deny the allegations. If that’s true, this constitutes a severe security incident.