possiblylinux127

Found on a meme community

I hope this goes without saying but please do not run this on machines you don't own.

The good news:

• the exploit seems to require user action

The bad news:

• Device Firewalls are ineffective against this

• if someone created a malicious printer on a local network like a library they could create serious issues

• it is hard to patch without breaking printing

• it is very easy to create printers that look legit

• even if you don't hit print the cups user agent can reveal lots of information. This may be blocked at the Firewall

TLDR: you should be careful hitting print

She's very blurry for some reason

That's sounds strange to say but hear me out. Before ransomeware there was no economic incentive for companies to worry about security. There was a strong "why would you hack us" vibe that made it hard to talk management into doing anything basic like locking down ports.

Nowadays everyone and there mom is worried about getting compromised. I've seen companies who historically didn't care at all about IT suddenly invest heavily in security. We are now much more secure than we were previously as everyone has suddenly realized that the internet had a huge risk. I doubt we will see any of the old style worms we had back in the day that would infect millions of machines.

I haven't heard anything in months. Maybe there is legal trouble?