Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

Re:Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unrem... by tecleandor on Sunday September 28, 2025 @07:00PM (#45408850)

Different. In 2018 there was articles [0] talking about hacked Supermicro servers being in the wild that had (simplifying) extra ICs in their motherboard, like some short of supply chain attack.

But AFAIK, tangible evidence never surfaced. [1]

  0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176620
  1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19910537

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Re:Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unrem... by alex77456 on Monday September 29, 2025 @07:09AM (#45412320)

I remember it too, but vaguely remember evidence of compromised boards

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