The USCC report also warns about the risks posed by IT hardware made in China. Hundreds of counterfeit routers were discovered being used throughout the Department of Defense. The FBI announced that its ongoing anti-counterfeiting campaign had resulted in more than 400 seizures of fake Cisco equipment worth more than $76 million. The report notes that fake hardware is vulnerable to supply chain subversion and attack, and could allow others to access to systems meant to be secure. For more security insights, InformationWeek has published its 2008 Strategic Security Survey.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/china-targets-u-s-computers-for-espionage-report-warns