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Supply Chain Risk: Raspberry Pi Device Used for War Shipping

ID: 1074c182-165a-589d-9484-23ca74116b25

STIX ID: report--1074c182-165a-589d-9484-23ca74116b25

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2014-10-07

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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A Security Affairs post summarizes a Derbycon demonstration of “war shipping,” a technique where attackers conceal a Raspberry Pi-based wireless device inside standard shipping boxes to passively monitor or attack a target's corporate Wi‑Fi and enable geolocation tracking of the package; the kit uses an AWUS051NH wireless card, kismet and custom software and is presented as a proof-of-concept to highlight supply-chain mailroom risks.

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