Security → Hackers Attack Shipping & Logistics Firms Using Mal-Laden Handheld Scanner

China-based threat actors are using sophisticated malware installed on handheld scanners to target shipping and logistics organizations from all over the world.

The attack, dubbed "Zombie Zero," has been analyzed by cybersecurity solutions provider TrapX, a company formerly known as CyberSense. According to TrapX, the attack begins at a Chinese company that provides hardware and software for handheld scanners used by shipping and logistics firms worldwide to inventory the items they're handling.....[ »www.securityweek.com/hac ··· scanners ]

so what harm does it do besides maybe reporting where goods are being shipped to?

It opens a path into the firm's computers.

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... "By compromising cryptographic keys and digital certificates, Zombie Zero attackers obtained trusted, authenticated status on their victim’s network," Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi, told SecurityWeek.

Experts determined that the threat group targets servers storing corporate financial data, customer data and other sensitive information. A second payload downloaded by the malware then establishes a sophisticated C&C on the company's finance servers, enabling the attackers to exfiltrate the information they're after. ...

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Going cheap can have its consequences.
Going cheap and communist most certainly will have consequences.

We will see ....... more & more cheap devices from CHINA { KARMA} ¿