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Security researchers did swarm on it and none of them could corroborate the story. It's been widely discredited in security researcher circles.

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This exploit was found after the article was published: https://www.wired.com/story/supermicro-bug-virtual-usb/

That is an unintended vulnerability which can be exploited. While also bad it's not evidence of a malicious hardware installed before leaving the factory.

If it was an attack that one guy was specifically being attacked.

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