Lightning Talk given at BSides Cape Town 1 December 2018 on Hardware Implants
Links to everything mentioned
Bloomberg Businessweek - The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg - New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
Ars Technica - How Soviets used IBM Selectric keyloggers to spy on US diplomats
Detailed technical write-up on how the bug worked Crypto Museum - Selectric Bug
NSA ANT Catalog
Wikipedia
NSA ANT Catalog PDF from EFF.org
ATTINY84 vs 74SN86 Photo taken from Securing Hardware - Hardware Implants by Joe Fitz Patrick
A good use of a hardware implant like this would be as a _kill-switch_ have it sit dormant watching for a trigger, when it receives that trigger, re-broadcast it on all interfaces then write 0's to all the drives, flash, firmware, bios etc. Plunge US companies into digital dark. https://t.co/oAO4Xuya6a
— Dale Nunns (@dale_nunns) October 5, 2018
