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Ever seen printer malware in action? Install this HP Ink patch – or you may find out

Trilkhai

(and seriously, who the hell exposes a printer to the internet?)

Someone who has a printer/scanner that they want to be able to scan/OCR/upload documents to a shared service without physical intervention, have it grab documents/images from the server to print out, etc. and get firmware updates so it keeps pace with changes to its compatible services.

(Though to be fair, I leave my Brother printer/scanner unplugged most of the time so it doesn't waste ink by compulsively cleaning the fucking cartridges every few days.)

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