PaperCut Attacker (Russian Linked) Uses AI Agents to Compromise 440 Instances
It’s worth noting the same IP address was also flagged by Arctic Wolf in connection with the exploitation activity last week.“At this time, we cannot confirm the exact end goal of this campaign,” Nevan Beal, principal MDR analyst at Blackpoint, told The Hacker News. In one attack targeting a high school in the U.S., the duration between initial access and full domain administrator access was a mere seven minutes.In all, the adversary is said to have gained domain administrator access against only 12 victim organizations. These include tasks like administrator access, account verification, Active Directory collection, domain and network discovery, and proxy setup.
- ▪It’s worth noting the same IP address was also flagged by Arctic Wolf in connection with the exploitation activity last week.“At this time, we cannot confirm the exact end goal of this campaign,” Nevan Beal, principal MDR analyst at Blackpo
- ▪In one attack targeting a high school in the U.S., the duration between initial access and full domain administrator access was a mere seven minutes.In all, the adversary is said to have gained domain administrator access against only 12 vi
- ▪These include tasks like administrator access, account verification, Active Directory collection, domain and network discovery, and proxy setup.
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TechnologyPaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ InstancesSeptember 14, 2026SwapUpdate A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances.According to independent reports from Blackpoint Cyber and GreyNoise, the activity originates from “45.142.193[.]132,” an IP address that has been linked to unauthorized port scanning and brute-force attack attempts in recent weeks.
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