Burn baby burn, plastic inferno! Infosec researchers turn 3D printers into self-immolating suicide machines

Burn baby burn, plastic inferno! Infosec researchers turn 3D printers into self-immolating suicide machines

Some 3D printers can be flashed with firmware updates downloaded directly from the internet – and an infosec research firm says it has discovered a way to spoof those updates and potentially make the printer catch fire.


Research from the appropriately named Coalfire biz claimed printers from Chinese company Flashforge could be abused through crafted updates that bypass safety features built into the devices' firmware.


The latest breakthrough – causing a printer to start smoking and hanging out with the bad kids – comes a few months after Coalfire first started poking about with the devices' update processes.


Coalfire used NSA tool Ghidra to help it crack the printer and its firmware, though its technique for deploying modified firmware requires the malicious person to be connected to the same network as the target device. Less scary, ..

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