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So it is a compromised ethernet adapter. Nobody question the ability of Chinese spies to plant such a thing, but the "Big Hack" story implies that this is used
by okket 8y ago
So it is a compromised ethernet adapter. Nobody question the ability of Chinese spies to plant such a thing, but the "Big Hack" story implies that this is used as a mass infiltration tool, which I still find very improbable and lacks any evidence.
- cm2187 8y agoDid they say "mass"? I thought it was a handful or large companies.
- gargravarr 8y agoThe way I interpret it is: since it's being introduced at the manufacturing plant, those installing the devices have no idea where the finished product will end up. Thus, these are not targetted attacks; they could wind up in the servers of a Fortune 500 company, or just as easily in some hobbyist's home lab. You'd need to compromise a large percentage of the products to increase the chances of landing a juicy target. The scattergun manner is what they're playing up here.
- saudioger 8y agoConsidering that large scale internet companies like Amazon and Apple buy enormous amounts of hardware, it's not an insane strategy. If you compromise 1 of every 1,000 pieces of hardware (or even one of every 10,000) odds are you'll end up in a major datacenter pretty quickly.