Securing Your Printer from Cyber Attacks
Hackers can gain access to your printer and retrieve sensitive information, conduct ransomware attacks, and send threatening messages. Printers can get viruses through infected software, printouts, or USB drives. Signs of a hacked printer include unprompted printing of blank pages or random characters, documents being printed that you did not initiate, and changes in printer settings. To protect your printer, update software, change default passwords, secure your WiFi, disable unused features, install antivirus software and a firewall, and connect your router to the modem via an ethernet cable.
