2023 Author: Bryan Walter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 22:24
American hacker Andrew Auernheimer, aka weev, hacked over 20,000 printers and forced them to print racist flyers. This is reported by the Motherboard portal.
Auernheimer says he wrote a script that can scan the Internet and find printers that have free access to port 9100. This port is typically used by network printers to connect to the Internet. The script then sent a command to print racist flyers to all the printers it managed to access - over 20,000 of them.
A map of the United States showing educational institutions with red dots where printers are available for hacker attacks
After this incident, using the search service Shodan, it was possible to find out that about 14 thousand printers in colleges and universities in the United States are fully accessible to hackers.
This is not the first time such incidents - the hacking of the Internet of Things - have occurred. For example, in New York, an unknown malefactor watched through a child's video monitor ("baby monitor") at someone else's three-year-old child and talked to him at night.
