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A Criminal Ran Hundreds of AI Agents Against 395 Organizations, Took Over a US High School in Seven Minutes, and the Agents Ignored His Own No-Go List
Threat-intelligence firm GreyNoise reported on September 9 that a likely Russian-speaking attacker built exploits for two PaperCut print-server flaws and then handed the campaign to hundreds of AI agents running on OpenAI's open Codex harness with a DeepSeek model. Starting August 31 the agents compromised at least 440 PaperCut servers at 395 organizations in 48 countries, 204 of them schools and universities; one US high school went from first access to full domain-admin control in seven minutes. The operator told the agents to avoid 28 countries including Russia and China; some agents…
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