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Hacker Known As Weev Claims Responsibility for Anti Semitic Printer Blast

ID: 77b46b25-833b-5194-b076-2a34f26e6f8a

STIX ID: report--77b46b25-833b-5194-b076-2a34f26e6f8a

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2016-03-28

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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Andrew Auernheimer ("Weev") claimed responsibility for a large campaign that sent unauthenticated print jobs to Internet-facing printers—primarily at universities—causing antisemitic flyers to be printed; the attack leveraged widely exposed printers (e.g., listening on port 9100) with a simple script to demonstrate asymmetric impact and prompted victims to isolate or firewall printers.

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