80,000 printers are exposing their IPP port online

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/80000-printers-are-exposing-their-ipp-port-online/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet.com
June 23, 2020

For years, security researchers have warned that every device left exposed 
online without being protected by a firewall is an attack surface.

Hackers can deploy exploits to forcibly take control over the device, or 
they can just connect to the exposed port if no authentication is 
required.

Devices hacked this way are often enslaved in malware botnets, or they 
serve as initial footholds and backdoors into larger corporate networks 
(Russian hackers already use this technique).

However, despite this being common knowledge among cyber-security and IT 
experts, we still have a large number of devices that are left exposed 
online unsecured.

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