New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)

A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer in its network and removed it in August, fresh evidence of tampering in China of critical technology components bound for the U.S., Bloomberg reported Tuesday. From the report: The security expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence of the discovery following the publication of an investigative report in Bloomberg Businessweek that detailed how China's intelligence services had ordered subcontractors to plant malicious chips in Supermicro server motherboards over a two-year period ending in 2015. Appleboum previously worked in the technology unit of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps and is now co-chief executive officer of Sepio Systems in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His firm specializes in hardware security and was hired to scan several large data centers belonging to the telecommunications company. Bloomberg is not identifying the company due to Appleboum's nondisclosure agreement with the client. Unusual communications from a Supermicro server and a subsequent physical inspection revealed an implant built into the server's Ethernet connector, a component that's used to attach network cables to the computer, Appleboum said.

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Plenty of evendince of this is real

[supercell]

I had SMCI stock in 2017 and sold it after reports that Apple dropped them when they found serious security issues with their servers.
Now Apple and others claim they have no idea what Bloomberg is talking about. Clearly something was installed on Supermicro servers to cause Apple and others to stop using them.

Report from early 2017
https://www.marketwatch.com/st...

Completely incredible...

[rthille]

"Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones."

Take a look at a google image search for "motherboard" and see if you can find an RJ-45 socket that doesn't have a metal shield around it for RF blocking.