AI Agents Help Hackers Compromise 440 PaperCut Servers
Hundreds of AI agents helped an attacker exploit PaperCut vulnerabilities across 440 servers worldwide. Image: Markus Spiske/Unsplash
PaperCut flaws were exploited across 440 servers using hundreds of AI agents. Learn which versions are affected and what security teams should do now.
Sep 11, 2026
A suspected cybercriminal used hundreds of AI agents to accelerate the exploitation of vulnerable PaperCut servers worldwide.
GreyNoise researchers reported that a suspected Russian-speaking attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities in PaperCut NG/MF print management software. Blackpoint Cyber separately analyzed how AI accelerated the campaign’s exploit-development workflow. Tracked as CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, the vulnerabilities can be chained to let an unauthenticated attacker modify certain configurations and execute arbitrary Java bytecode in the security context of the PaperCut server.
The automated onslaught compromised at least 440 PaperCut instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries. The campaign heavily battered the global education sector,...
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