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An AI Agent Swarm Hit 440 PaperCut Servers in 26 Seconds Per Target. The Education Sector Didn’t Stand a Chance.

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The attack didn’t start with a phishing email. It didn’t start with a social engineering call. It started with an empty AI coding workspace and four hours of prompt engineering. By the time researchers at Huntress and GreyNoise caught up, 440+ PaperCut NG/MF instances across 395 organizations in 48…

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  1. 2026-09-23 22:38 · DEV Community — AI
    An AI Agent Swarm Hit 440 PaperCut Servers in 26 Seconds Per Target. The Education Sector Didn’t Stand a Chance.

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