Clearly there was significant planning and investment in order to design the malware, and then embed it into the hardware within the barcode scanner.
Internet of things (IoT) devices may be similarly preinstalled with malware that can capture the network passwords and then open a backdoor to attackers.
The stolen data which was scanned included every piece of information about the item, destination address, source and more.
This botnet connected to the Lanxiang Vocational School located in the China Unicom network for Shandong province.
The botnet then downloaded a second payload that broadened the command and control which now extended to the target company's corporate servers in finance.