diff --git a/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/misc/ScannerEffectController.java b/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/misc/ScannerEffectController.java
index a94b487b4..a02bf0ec3 100644
--- a/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/misc/ScannerEffectController.java
+++ b/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/misc/ScannerEffectController.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.security.SecureRandom;
 import java.util.Random;
 
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ import stirling.software.common.util.WebResponseUtils;
 public class ScannerEffectController {
 
     private final CustomPDFDocumentFactory pdfDocumentFactory;
-    private static final Random RANDOM = new Random();
+    private static final Random RANDOM = new SecureRandom();
 
     // Size limits to prevent OutOfMemoryError
     private static final int MAX_IMAGE_WIDTH = 8192;