Fax Virus' Panicked A Manager And Sparked Job-Killing Reply-All Incident
The Register, Friday, October 17th, 2025
The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint
Faxes were slipping away because documents sent using the devices often arrived as a blurry mess, sometimes with a certain ransom note aesthetic, thanks to primitive scanning tech, low bitrates, and the cheap printers often used in low-end machines.
That didn't stop spammers and scammers sending dodgy faxes, or office pranksters sending funny faxes to friends.