Printer Security Gaps: A Broad, Leafy Avenue to Compromise

This article summarizes an HP Wolf Security survey and related research showing many organizations fail to patch or secure networked printers across their lifecycle, making them attractive targets; it details recent high-severity vulnerabilities (including pass-back attacks and a CVSS 9.8 unpatchable bug affecting many models), notes active exploitation (phishing and credential-capture incidents), and recommends mitigation steps such as prompt firmware updates, procurement-security collaboration, continuous monitoring, and secure device erasure.