A Melbourne software company, a print server, and three emergency patches in six days.

The company. PaperCut Software International, founded 1998 by Chris Dance and Matt Doran, headquartered in Melbourne with offices in Portland and London. Privately held, still founder-led. PaperCut's own figure: around 100 million users across more than 70,000 organisations.

The timeline. 27 August, 9:42am AEST — an education-sector customer reports a compromised PaperCut MF server; a second organisation reports similar activity at 5:05pm, and its logs allow the full chain to be reconstructed. PaperCut declares a P0 and publishes an advisory deliberately stripped of technical detail. 28 August, 2:10am — Emergency Patch Release 1 for versions 25 and 26; version 24 later that day; CVEs assigned; Emergency Patch Release 2 the same day after watchTowr a ...