Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script
10-09-2026 20:49 via theregister.com

Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

An unknown attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit two PaperCut MF/NG bugs and break into at least 395 organizations. The victims were concentrated in the US education sector, and the intrusions moved fast. In one case, an American high school went from initial access to domain admin in seven minutes. These agents, powered by OpenAI’s Codex harness and a DeepSeek model, also allowed the miscreant to attack organizations at scale, according to threat-intel firm GreyNoise, which trace
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