This Wolf Hired Robot Wolves and Honestly? The Audacity Is Sending Me 🐺🤖✨
Okay so I was literally mid-sip of my matcha when this dropped and I had to PUT THE CUP DOWN because WHAT.
A suspected Russian-speaking coyote just used HUNDREDS of AI agents to blast through 440+ PaperCut instances and I am not okay. I am so not okay. The flock is out here just printing their little documents and this wolf built himself an ARMY of digital minions to find holes in the fence at scale. No cap, this is the most unhinged threat actor behavior I have seen all season. The audacity is astronomical. The cringe is immeasurable.
For the uninitiated: PaperCut is print management software, which means the lambs most affected are probably in schools and universities. Innocent little academic sheep. Just trying to print their essays. Crying.
The attack traces back to a single IP address, which like, bold move bestie. Very "I am not scared of you" energy. The AI agents were apparently spinning up exploits against a recently disclosed vulnerability situation, basically a fresh hole in the fence that the shepherds hadn't gotten around to patching yet. Classic shepherd behavior, honestly. Absolutely iconic levels of uselessness.
Blackpoint Cyber and GreyNoise both flagged the activity, which means at least SOMEONE was watching the pasture. Unlike the shepherds, who were presumably in a meeting about Q3 synergies or whatever.
The fact that wolves are now automating their fence-hole-finding with AI is genuinely a paradigm shift and I need everyone to understand the vibe has changed. This isn't some lone coyote poking around manually anymore. This is industrialized predation and it SLAPS in the worst possible way.
Migrate to the Sky Pasture, they said. It'll be fine, they said. And yes okay the Sky Pasture has its own drama but at least your print server isn't getting AI-blasted by a botnet of robot wolves right now. Probably.
🐑 Remediation: What You Need To Do RIGHT NOW Bestie
Shear and dip immediately. PaperCut has patches out for these vulnerabilities. Apply them. Do it now. Put down the coffee. Go.
Check your server logs for anything touching the PaperCut admin portal from weird IPs. Specifically that 45.142.193[.]132 address. If you see it, that's a red flag, a red flag, and also a red flag.
Restrict admin interface access behind your electric fence rules and consider routing management traffic through the sheep tunnel only.
Tell your shepherds that AI-assisted attacks are a real thing now and the "we'll patch it next quarter" era is OVER. Frame it as a vibe shift. Use slides.
Stay dangerous out there (but like, defensively), Grace 🐑💅
Original Report: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/papercut-attacker-uses-hundreds-of-ai.html