The cybercrime has created a lot of disturbance in the minds of the concerned user. On top of this even hackers and other professionals have started using printers and scanners to spread malware across the devices. Professionals do suggest that user should beware of the printers or scanners which have been spoofed and used for this purpose. Now, the hackers have been spoofing printers, scanners and copiers to dispense legitimate form of files to the victim’s network device. This is nothing but a malware. How are these attacks designed? The scrupulous professionals make use of the wrong path for cheating the users. Such miscreants adopt subtle and sophisticated form of engineering techniques, with the aim of forcing the users to download infected attachments. They also easily spoof the printer’s model in a way to divert the attention of the user to some other place. There have been cases when the payload is a data-encrypting ransom ware. This is specially been d...