[chbot] International shipping cyber-attack

[Andy Gardner]

Since label printers were mentioned, I originally thought this was an 
attack on the actually logistics system such that even though the parcel 
labels has the correct address on them, the data in the barcodes was 
redirecting everything to the attacker's delivery address :^)



On 6/02/23 07:02, Mark Atherton wrote:
> https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/uk-international-shipping-halted-by-cyber-attack.html
> 
> This is interesting.
> 
> I have of course just had two packages shipped from the UK, and they 
> appear to be stuck somewhere.
> 
> An attack was launched on the Royal Mail, specifically targeting 
> shipping label-printers.
> 
> This is cunning.
> 
> -Mark
> 
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