Global ThreadsMar 27, 2025

🇨🇳 CHINA | 🇺🇸 US
🔴 US Blacklists 80 Firms Over AI & Defense Fears

🔸 Over 50 Chinese firms added to the export blacklist targeting AI, quantum & hypersonic tech.
🔸 Inspur’s 6 subsidiaries hit again after 2023 sanctions.
🔸 DeepSeek’s Nvidia-based AI raises chip smuggling alarms.
🔸 List includes UAE, Iran, South Africa firms; Iran targeted for drone & missile efforts.

#China #AI #Quantum #US #Inspur #Sanctions #DeepSeek #Nvidia #TechSecurity

Yonhap Infomax NewsMar 26, 2025
U.S. expands export restrictions on Chinese tech firms, adding over 70 companies including Inspur subsidiaries to blacklist, targeting AI and military-related technologies
#YonhapInfomax #USExportBlacklist #ChineseTechFirms #Inspur #AITechnology #MilitaryTech #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=55694
US Adds Over 70 Chinese Firms, Including Inspur Subsidiaries, to Export Blacklist

U.S. expands export restrictions on Chinese tech firms, adding over 70 companies including Inspur subsidiaries to blacklist, targeting AI and military-related technologies

Yonhap Infomax
deltatuxDec 5, 2022
Severe flaws in the #AMI #MegaRAC #BMC #firmware allows for #attackers to enumerate usernames, establish administrative #shell & arbitrary code execution.

There are 15 server vendors affected which includes #AMD, #AmpereComputing, #ASRock, #Asus, #ARM, #Dell EMC, #Gigabyte, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (#HPE), #Huawei, #Inspur, #Lenovo, #Nvidia, #Qualcomm, #Quanta, and #Tyan.

These flaws are especially an issue for #hosting & #cloud service providers.

If you have servers from the above vendors, make sure to patch your #BMC #firmware from your vendor #ASAP.

#patching #infosec #cybersecurity #VulnerabilityManagement

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/severe-ami-megarac-flaws-impact-servers-from-amd-arm-hpe-dell-others/
Severe AMI MegaRAC flaws impact servers from AMD, ARM, HPE, Dell, others

Three vulnerabilities in the American Megatrends MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software impact server equipment used in many cloud service and data center providers.

BleepingComputer
Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersMay 17, 2022

@polarisera
> The latest government directive is likely to cover only #PC brands and #software, and exclude hard-to-replace components, including #microprocessors, the people said. China will mostly encourage Linux-based operating systems to replace (#MicrosoftWindows). Shanghai-based #StandardSoftware is one of the top providers of such tools, one person said.

ONLY SOURCE AVAILABLE:
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-05-06/china-orders-government-officials-to-dump-foreign-pcs-5916613.html

#HP #Dell #Lenovo #Kingsoft #Inspur #Dawning

China orders government, state firms to dump foreign PCs

China has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within two years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.

Stars and Stripes
heise online (inoffiziell)May 8, 2022
Innerhalb von zwei Jahren sollen bis zu 50 Millionen Rechner ausländischer Marken wie HP und Dell durch inländische Alternativen etwa von Lenovo ersetzt werden.
China verbannt ausländische PCs und Windows aus Behörden und Staatsbetrieben
China verbannt ausländische PCs und Windows aus Behörden und Staatsbetrieben

Innerhalb von zwei Jahren sollen bis zu 50 Millionen Rechner ausländischer Marken wie HP und Dell durch inländische Alternativen etwa von Lenovo ersetzt werden.

heise online