50.000 printers hacked to ask to subscribe to the Pewdiepie channel

Marco Antonio Ramirez November 30, 2018

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A vulnerability in the firmware of WiFI printers has caused a series of impressions that ask to subscribe to the channel of the youtuber, which is about to lose the first place in number of subscribers.

Throughout the emana, some printers have started printing without the orders of their users. Normally it would be used to display a message regarding the hack, but no, as it has been used to promote the Pewdiepie channel.

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Printers around the world have begun to print the sheets you see on these lines, with a total of 50.000 printers affected, according to the alleged author of the hack, TheHackerGiraffe, who has seen his attack reaching printers in the United Kingdom, Canada and United States. He did this by searching web pages that give us access to vulnerable WiFi devices, although the hacker claims that there are up to 800.000 potentially vulnerable printers.

A massive hack to help PewdDiePie

The reason for the attack is very simple, and it is that it found a tool capable of mavisibly sending print jobs to vulnerable printers and because it is a declared fan of YouTubers, which is currently endangering its position as the YouTuber with the most subscribers.

For a few months, PewDiePie has been committed to the channel position with the most YouTube subscribers. According to the trends, it will be for the T-Series channel, a production company in India that constantly uploads music videos, which is getting more subscribers than PewDiePie and in a short time they would be able to surpass the Nordic one.

However, the news that we stay is that there are tens of thousands of printers that are a vulnerable link in many people's networks. So with this news it is worth checking regularly both the firmware of the routers and that of the printers and other connected devices.

Source Engadget