Sự thật choáng váng về tình báo Trung Quốc
cài một con chip nhỏ trên bo mạch chủ, ngay từ nhà máy nhỏ trong chuỗi cung ứng toàn cầu, tấn công tới 30 tập đoàn lớn của Mỹ,
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The attack by Chinese spies (tình báo, điệp viên) reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising (gây tổn hại) America’s technology supply chain (chuỗi cung ứng công nghệ).
... Nested on the servers' motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn't part of the boards' original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder (rùng mình ớn lạnh/sợ hãi) through the intelligence community (cộng đồng tình báo). Elemental's servers could be found in Department of Defense (Bộ Quốc phòng) data centers (trung tâm dữ liệu), the CIA's drone operations (chiến dịch máy bay không người lái), and the onboard networks of Navy warships (tàu chiến Hải quân). And Elemental was just one of hundreds of Supermicro customers.
During the ensuing (sau đó) top-secret probe (điều tra tối mật), which remains open more than three years later, investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway (cổng hậu ngầm) into any network that included the altered (đã bị điều chỉnh/thay đổi) machines. Multiple people familiar with the matter say investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.
...There are two ways for spies to alter the guts of computer equipment. One, known as interdiction (ngăn chặn (tiếp tế...) bằng cách bắn phá đường giao thông), consists of manipulating (điều khiển, thao túng) devices as they’re in transit from manufacturer (nhà sản xuất) to customer. This approach is favored by U.S. spy agencies, according to documents leaked by former National Security Agency (Cục An ninh quốc gia) contractor Edward Snowden. The other method involves seeding changes from the very beginning.
One country in particular has an advantage executing this kind of attack: China, which by some estimates makes 75 percent of the world’s mobile phones and 90 percent of its PCs. Still, to actually accomplish a seeding attack would mean developing a deep understanding of a product’s design, manipulating components at the factory, and ensuring that the doctored devices made it through the global logistics chain to the desired location—a feat akin to throwing a stick in the Yangtze River upstream from Shanghai and ensuring that it washes ashore in Seattle (để làm được như vậy, là một chiến công tương tự như vứt một que gậy xuống sông Dương Tử và đảm bảo được nó tới bờ Seattle - như nhìn thấy kỳ lân bay trên cầu vồng)...
Bài trước: Cẩn trọng với cho vay ngang hàng
Tags: china
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