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YouTuber PewDiePie Promoted Via 50K Hacked Printers
2018-12-03 14:53

The incident sheds light on just how insecure printers are.

Printers pulled into 9100 port attack spew PewDiePie propaganda
2018-12-03 12:37

Printers worldwide printed messages urging people to subscribe to the vlogger's YouTube channel in a demo of a well-known vulnerability.

Someone Hacked 150,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel
2018-12-01 10:48

This may sound crazy, but it’s true! The war for "most-subscribed Youtube channel" crown between T-Series and PewDiePie just took an interesting turn after a hacker yesterday hijacked more than...

Giraffe hacks printers to promote tasteless YouTuber
2018-12-01 00:35

Yeah, we don’t know wtf is going on either Did your work printer produce a strange call to action this week, encouraging you to follow someone on YouTube, unlike from a Bollywood channel and then...

Thousands of unsecured 3D printers discovered online
2018-09-06 11:02

With access control disabled, other people could download previous print files, or even maliciously damage the printer.

Access misconfiguration opens 3D printers to remote attacks
2018-09-05 11:45

Spurred by a report coming from a regular reader, SANS ISC handlers Richard Porter and Xavier Mertens searched for OctoPrint interfaces for 3D printers exposed online and found over 3,700 that are...

Thousands of 3D Printers Exposed to Remote Attacks
2018-09-04 14:37

Malicious actors could take control of thousands of 3D printers that can be accessed directly from the Internet without requiring any authentication. According to the SANS Internet Storm Center, a...

Thousands of misconfigured 3D printers on interwebz run risk of sabotage
2018-09-04 10:30

Security controls aren't there to just look pretty, you know Internet-connected 3D printers are at risk of being tampered with or even sabotaged because users fail to apply security controls, a...

DEF CON 2018: Critical Bug Opens Millions of HP OfficeJet Printers to Attack
2018-08-12 22:00

A malicious fax sent to an HP Inc. OfficeJet all-in-one inkjet printer can give hackers control of the printer and act as a springboard into an attached network environment.

HP plugs critical RCE flaws in InkJet printers
2018-08-06 15:08

HP has plugged two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-5924, CVE-2018-5925) affecting many of its InkJet printers and is urging users to implement the provided firmware updates as soon as possible....