Hackers Use Codex and DeepSeek AI Agents to Breach 440 PaperCut Servers Worldwide
Attackers used Codex and DeepSeek agents to exploit PaperCut flaws and compromise 440 servers in 48 countries.
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Hackers Use Hundreds of AI Agents to Exploit PaperCut Servers and Steal Windows Credentials
A threat actor used AI agents to exploit PaperCut, compromising about 440 servers and stealing Windows credentials.
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Death By A Thousand PaperCuts (PaperCut Pre-Auth RCE Chain and Patch Bypasses WT-2026-0141-0144/CVE-2026-82077/CVE-2026-82078/CVE-2026-81578)
watchTowr details a PaperCut pre-auth RCE chain exploited in the wild and repeated patch bypasses.
Hackers Turned a PaperCut Print Server Into a Path to the Domain Controller
Attackers chained two PaperCut MF zero-days to reach an education customer's domain controller in under two days.
Attackers Use PaperCut RCE Chain to Steal Tokens and Access Domain Controller
Attackers chained PaperCut MF zero-days CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to deploy a web shell and dump Active Directory from a domain controller.
What Zero-Day Response Should Be in the Post-Mythos Era
Picus Security outlines a zero-day response playbook where defenders simulate exploit technique chains before public PoCs exist.
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Papercut AI Swarm Attack Heralds Changes for Cyber Kill Chain
Dark Reading reports AI-driven 'swarm' attacks like the PaperCut incident now span recon, lateral movement and exfiltration, forcing a rethink of the cyber kill chain.
Metasploit Wrap Up: This One Goes to Sixteen!
Metasploit adds 16 modules including 10 exploits, five covering CISA KEV vulnerabilities in Cisco, SonicWall, PaperCut, JetBrains and Langflow.
AI agents exploited PaperCut flaws to breach 395 organizations
GreyNoise says AI agents running OpenAI's Codex with DeepSeek exploited PaperCut flaws, compromising 440 instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries.
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PaperCut Flaws Exploited in AI-Powered Attacks
GreyNoise says a Russian-speaking actor used AI to build and deploy exploits hitting 440 PaperCut NG/MF deployments across 395 organizations in 48 countries.
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PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws
PaperCut shipped maintenance releases replacing emergency patches for two actively exploited flaws abused in AI-assisted attacks on 395 organizations.
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Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script
Attacker used hundreds of AI agents powered by Codex and DeepSeek to exploit PaperCut flaws, breaching 395 organizations across 48 countries.
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AI-powered attack exploited PaperCut flaws to hack 395 organizations
AI-driven campaign exploited PaperCut flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, compromising 440 servers at 395 organizations in 48 countries.
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PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
GreyNoise and Blackpoint tracked an AI-assisted actor using OpenAI Codex and DeepSeek agents to exploit PaperCut flaws across 440+ instances in 48 countries.
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Hackers Deploy Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440 PaperCut Servers
AI-agent campaign exploited PaperCut CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, compromising 440 servers at 395 organizations and reaching Domain Admin in 12.
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Hackers Use Hundreds of AI Agents to Exploit PaperCut Flaws and Compromise 440 Servers Worldwide
A Russian-speaking actor used hundreds of AI agents to exploit PaperCut flaws, compromising 440 servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries.
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Agents Gone Wild: An AI-Orchestrated Global Campaign Against PaperCut NG/MF
AI-orchestrated campaign exploited PaperCut NG/MF RCE (CVE-2026-81578/82078), compromising 440+ instances at 395 organizations in 48 countries.
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Hackers Are Probing PaperCut Servers, and 47% Still Have No Patch
PaperCut pre-auth RCE CVE-2026-81578 actively exploited; 47% of tracked installs unpatched and exposed to remote code execution.
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PaperCut Flaws Exploited in Attacks on U.S. and European Schools
Attackers are chaining recently disclosed PaperCut flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to steal credentials and create privileged accounts at US and European schools.
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Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Attackers exploit newly disclosed PaperCut auth bypass CVE-2026-81578 and RCE CVE-2026-82078 to steal credentials from schools and universities in the US and Europe.
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Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication
Attackers chain PaperCut NG/MF flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 for unauthenticated RCE; exploitation observed and a second emergency patch issued.
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Attackers plant remote access tools on compromised PaperCut servers
Attackers chained two PaperCut NG/MF zero-days for unauthenticated access, installing SimpleHelp and AnyDesk remote access tools on compromised servers.
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off
Weekly recap: FBI disrupts Chinese QTFY proxy network, Fire Ant expands to trusted infrastructure, ZBT router backdoors surface, and OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face.
CVE-2026-81578 + CVE-2026-82078 | PaperCut NG/MF Authentication Bypass and Unsafe Dynamic Class Loading Vulnerabilities
Two chained PaperCut NG/MF flaws, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, enable pre-auth RCE, with active exploitation confirmed in customer environments.
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