Are viruses out of the box in new hardware something to worry about?

"evil maid attack" , episodes like " A malware strain capable of surviving OS reinstalls has been secretly infiltrating older motherboards from Asus and Gigabyte, according to antivirus vendor Kaspersky. " made me worry, especially considering that keyboards and keypads are made or white label-ed by countless minor companies (and yet it even happened to asus and gigabyte).

there's then been the discussion of the threat of all network hardware being made in china as a threat to usa cybersecurity, …

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