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Exploit code for a critical printer software vulnerability became publicly available on Monday in a release that may exacerbate the threat of malware attacks that have already been underway for the past five days.
The vulnerability resides in print management software known as PaperCut, which the company’s website says has more than 100 million users from 70,000 organizations. When this post went live, the Shodan search engine showed that close to 1,700 instances of the software were exposed to the Internet.
World map showing locations of PaperCut installations.
Last Wednesday, PaperCut warned that a critical vulnerability it patched
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