Employees of companies around the world began to receive messages urging them to pay attention to the level of work, wages, start putting pressure on their bosses and switch to the r / Antiwork subreddit. Messages are printed on receipt printers by anonymous hackers.

The attack was first reported this Tuesday. One Reddit user stated that his receipt printer at work unexpectedly printed out the text of the manifest against the job. Later on the r / Antiwork subreddit began to appear many similar posts with the same message. One of the users noted that in a week his printer printed 4 receipts with different manifest texts, but the same call.

The community reacted and suggested that the receipts were fake and printed by employees who have access to the cash register system outlets in order to defame the r / Antiwork subreddit.

Founder of cybersecurity analyst firm GreyNoise, Andrew Morris, commented on the situation, saying that his company's employees discovered suspicious network traffic that uses unsecured receipt printers to print messages. At the same time, attackers do not target specific organizations, but simply send documents to all found devices. Morris summed up the incident, saying that the identities of the hackers and their motives are still unknown, but everything indicates that they are acting on purpose.

In 2018, a similar situation occurred, a Twitter user hacked more than 50 thousand network printers and printed on them leaflets with an appeal to subscribe to the YouTube channel of the Swedish blogger PewDiePie. All of this happened amid a race to dominate the number of subscribers among the PewDiePie and T-Series channels. Also this week, cybersecurity experts discovered a number of vulnerabilities in HP printers that gave hackers access to remote code execution and interception of network traffic. Errors affected more than 150 MFP models.

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