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LONDON (Reuters) – The UK's cyber security agency said on Friday that it had no reason to doubt Apple and Amazon's ratings that refuted a Bloomberg story that their systems contain malicious computer chips inserted by the Chinese intelligence services.
Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday quoted 17 unidentified sources of intelligence and business, according to which Chinese spies would have placed chips in hardware used by about 30 companies, as well as by many US government agencies, which would give Beijing secret access to internal networks.
"We are aware of the information communicated by the media, but at this point, we have no reason to doubt the detailed assessments made by AWS and Apple," said the National Cyber Security Center, a the British agency GCHQ.
"The NCSC works confidentially with security researchers and urges anyone with reliable information on these reports to contact us," he said.
(Report by Guy Faulconbridge and Mark Hosenball, edited by Sarah Young)
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