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by YurgenJurgensen 1349 days ago
And the great thing about an Amazon ransomware attack is that if your implant waits long enough to trigger, you can probably get the customer to return the device to Amazon where they'll dutifully stock it back in their warehouse ready for another victim. So efficient.
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I doubt they bother to restock most items, unless maybe they’re sufficiently expensive. For example, see https://pirscapital.com/blog/amazon-liquidation-buying-retur...
1. Customer: buys USB drive, plugs in

2. USB: infect, report wrong size

3. Customer: returns USB drive

4: Amazon: restocks USB drive

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