Post #541938

2024-10-01 20:58 UTC

lmao a friends printer seems to have weaseled its way to the internet (probably using UPnP) and is old and doesn't know what to do with the data it's being sent so it just prints the data to pages ... printers gotta print ig :akko_shrug:

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@bertdriehuis@infosec.exchange 2026-03-05 20:06

@thermia the attack is specific in using 192.168.1.129, so UPnP would not be my first suspect. Someone or something on the local net appears to be treating your friend to a free security scan. It looks like it's targeting IoT, so it may be one of Mirai's successors at play.

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@lennybacon@infosec.exchange 2026-03-05 19:33

@thermia It’s poetry!

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@m3t00@app.wafrn.net 2026-03-05 19:32

reminds me of dad's dot matrix back in the 80s. dancing it's stand side to side. 'you got internet?'

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@NuclearOatmeal@beige.party 2026-03-05 19:32

@thermia Printer making strange sounds. Where'd I put my gun?

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@jmax@mastodon.social 2026-03-05 19:31

@thermia I mean, I kinda like that it wants to print. I've met too many printers who didn't.

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@joshg@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-05 19:20

@thermia I vote for just leaving this on the open internet with no firewall and setting it up as a public art installation

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@rk@mastodon.well.com 2026-03-05 19:18

@thermia I write active network scanning software for a living. The amount of work we do to make sure this doesn’t happen when we scan a network is immense. And yes UPnP devices will often just…punch a hole in a firewall for lulz.

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@f00fc7c8@woem.space 2024-10-01 22:04

@thermia I accidentally did that once by running a vulnerability scanner on my home network

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@er1@mk.moth.zone 2024-10-01 21:39

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng She's having fun

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