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Networked Printers New Weapon for Spammers
Filed in archive Spam News by Sue Walsh on January 15, 2008
Networked Printers New Weapon for Spammers
trend micro is reporting that spammers have found a new way to attack-networked printers. The attack, called Cross Site Printing for Spamming, relies on a built in, rarely used feature om such printers. They listen on port 9100, a permanently open and non-authenticated port. Once hackers trick users into visiting a malicious site, designed to capture the printers IP address they would be able to connect to it and launch a print job to send spam or gibberish messages, send a fax, reformat the printer's hard drive and more. Researchers say the hackers can accomplish this with a simple iframe. They recommend password protecting networked printers. You can access an excellent presentation about this new form of attack here.


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