News Summary

• A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF.
• The activity originates from " 45.142.193[.]132," an IP address that has been linked to unauthorized port scanning and brute-force attack attempts in recent weeks.
• At its core, the opportunistic attacks exploit CVE-2026-81578 and CVE- 2026-82078, a combination of an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain.