HP Claims Monopoly on Ink, Alleges 3rd-Party Cartridge Malware Risk

The report discusses HP’s justification for blocking third-party ink cartridges on security grounds, citing 2022 bug-bounty research suggesting reprogrammable cartridge chips could be abused to deliver malware to printers and networks, while noting there are no known in-the-wild attacks. It also covers a class-action lawsuit challenging HP’s Dynamic Security updates that disable printers using non-HP chips, and highlights industry skepticism about the plausibility of cartridge-based attacks and concerns about customer impact.