Printer bomb malware wastes reams of paper, sparks pandemonium

zigzag3143 · Jun 21, 2012

A recently unleashed piece of malware is wreaking havoc in some enterprises by causing all their printers to print gibberish until they run out of paper, researchers from Symantec said.
"The impact is global and effecting approximately 80 print servers," an admin of one Fortune 500 company wrote in an online forum dedicated to the print bomb explosion. "The print job names were all 15 characters in length and unique. The print jobs were all garbage print, as if it was opening the .exe and printing the garbage text." Other participants reported the same phenomenon caused hundreds of their organizations' printers to run through reams of paper.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/printer-bomb-pandimonium/

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Printer bomb malware wastes reams of paper, sparks pandemonium

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