Facebook, Apple confirm they were targets of Supermicro malware attack

The plot thickens.

In a follow-up to its bombshell report about a Chinese supply-chain attack on major U.S. companies including Apple and Amazon via the server manufacturer Supermicro, Bloomberg says bad actors also infiltrated the servers with malware. Two of the companies affected by the software attack: Apple and Facebook.

In a departure from Amazon and Apple’s denial over the previous reports, both Facebook and Apple confirmed that they found malware on their Supermicro servers. 

Facebook says that it was made aware of servers with compromised firmware in 2015 on “a limited number of Supermicro hardware” that were only used “for testing purposes confined to our labs.” In other words, Facebook says the attack did not affect users. Hmm. Still not a great look for a company dealing with a data breach that affected 50 million people. Read more…

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