Speaking at the Black Hat Europe conference in London, trainer and researcher Joe FitzPatrick from SecuringHardware.com asked delegates if their risk assessment considers $5 hardware attacks and if not, “why worry about $1m [hardware attacks], as what is more likely?” In his talk ‘A Measured Response to a Grain of Rice,’ which took a strong look at the controversial Bloomberg article about tiny chips found on motherboards, FitzPatrick said that we first heard of malicious implants as part of the Snowden leaks in 2013, and the “Ant Catalogue” as reported by Der Spiegel. “Usually we think of keystroke loggers via USB but they have been around for decades, as have Modchips,” he said.

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