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Slackbot supposedly sends automatic replies to whole org via batch update

by ghostoftiber on 1/23/24, 1:58 PM with 1 comments

• by ghostoftiber on 1/23/24, 1:58 PM

  > We determined that the rollout of a fix for an older bug report pertaining to Slackbot responses not working in org-wide or multi-workspace channels, was the root cause.

  I'm not trying to be paranoid here but I work for a very large company. We got slackbot responses that looked a lot like phishing URLs. We got slackbot responses with broken english, and emojis we never use. I find it very hard to believe that this wasn't a security incident.