Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script
Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!
An unknown attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit two PaperCut MF/NG bugs and break into at least 395 organizations. The victims were concentrated in the US education sector, and the intrusions moved fast. In one case, an American high school went from initial access to domain admin in seven minutes.
These agents, powered by OpenAI’s Codex harness and a DeepSeek model, also allowed the miscreant to attack organizations at scale, according to threat-intel firm GreyNoise, which traced the campaign’s orchestration to 45.142.193.132 on August 31.
“The adversary went from an empty workspace to first achieving RCE against a real victim in just under four hours, first domain admin in an additional two hours, and once the full campaign launched, compromised at least 11 organizations in 26 seconds,” GreyNoise analysts said in a Wednesday report.
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