OTX Threat: Agents Gone Wild: An AI-Orchestrated Global Campaign Against PaperCut NG/MF
A likely Russian-speaking malicious cyber actor leveraged artificial intelligence to orchestrate a global campaign exploiting PaperCut NG/MF print management software via CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078. Using AI agents powered by DeepSeek models and OpenAI's Codex, the adversary moved from empty workspace to first remote code execution in under four hours, compromising at least 440 PaperCut ins CVEs: CVE-2021-42278, CVE-2021-42287, CVE-2023-27532, CVE-2026-0400, CVE-2026-81578 Sectors: Educat