The Big Hack: or how Chinese spy on the world

Well well well, if we say first that vulnerabilities and attacks do not only affect cryptomoneda platformsHe’s out before. a real organized attack affecting online systems and services. And it’s just these days. an extensive article entitled ‘the Big Hac

k’con an attack that the Chinese government could have carried out to have access to servers from all over the world. Let’s see it in a little more detail, but if it’s true it’s not just the attack of the year, but one of the greatest and most elaborate in history.

The attack

According to Bloomberg, the attack is related to the brand’s servers Supermicro. These servers have been known for many years, have very good components (hardware) at a lower price than other more known manufacturers such as Dell or IBM, so Most of the great technologies have a few thousand Supermicro servers.

Looks like A few years ago Amazon acquired a large number of these servers and sent one of them to analyze by an independent laboratory to see if it was really reliable and safe as its competence. This laboratory has taken many months to dismantle the cache and to go one by one analyzing all the hardware components of the server, analyzing its function and its tolerance to failures, to current peaks, to glitchs, etc… and have finally found this little chip that had passed unnoticed so far:

Small, huh? Like not to go unnoticed within all the circuits and cards of a server… but the fact is that This small chip seems to be in charge of creating a back door to the server that could have been used by the Chinese chip manufacturer (or the Chinese government, you never know) to access all these servers. Which companies could have been affected? So the Bloomberg article quotes Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple among others.

Big Hack? Or news to sink Supermicro’s actions?

Of course. They all went out to the media to say they don’t know what they’re talking about. And that what Bloomberg says has never happened in his systems. In addition, very precise data are cited and for example Apple says that ‘only’ has 7000 Supermicro servers instead of the 20,000 that the article assigns to it. He also says that Siri has never developed on these servers as the article cites with possible filtered data.

And now comes the doubt plazanoic: Has it really happened and are they trying to hide it from the international conflict it would lead to?. On other occasions, when such news has been published and the company has denied it, it has ended up finding that it was a real attack and the company knew it but did not want to recognize it publicly until it told all its shareholders and advisers. In others, the same government has forced these companies to deny the largest to manage the international conflict more internally… so it gives me that we won’t know unless someone gets away with something more?

Information.

That the Chinese government is trying to spy on the rest of the world is no news, they say there are cyber wars between countries that we don’t know about with cyber attacks on critical infrastructure or government systems and large companies, but from there they have been able to access to chorropotohundreds of thousand large company servers without anyone noticing it so far… I don’t know, it seems a little weird, even though those teams are engaged we would have traces on other network teams, the firewalls would have detected those connections from outside or something… eye that I don’t say the hardware is not troyanized with a p

Back gate, but from there to get access to that back door without anyone finding out there’s a world.