The attack appears to be associated with a China-backed APT actor. A supply-chain attack dubbed “Operation ShadowHammer” has been uncovered, targeting users of the ASUS Live Update Utility with a ...
Thought the attack appears to have targeted a list of 600 machines, the associated malware made its way to an estimated one million people, according to Kaspersky Labs. When you purchase through links ...
Security vendor Kaspersky has disclosed today a new advanced persistent threat (APT) that it claims to have potentially affected more than a million users of ASUS hardware worldwide. The hackers ...
Asus has issued multiple statements regarding a highly publicized botnet attack infecting over 9,000 routers to date. Per our previous reporting, the "AyySSHush" botnet has infected its hosts through ...
In yet another Rock Star malware announcement, Kaspersky unveils spectacular details of craftily subverted ASUS automatic update servers. Kaspersky estimates 1 million infections, but only 600 ...
Asus confirmed today that its Live Update utility has been indeed infected with malicious code by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of a supply chain attack which managed to compromise ...
On Monday, we saw once again how criminals can exploit trust and use it as a weakness. Cybersecurity reporter Kim Zetter revealed that one of the world’s largest computer manufacturers, Taiwan-based ...
ASUS released today a new version of the Live Update tool that contains fixes for vulnerabilities that were exploited by a nation-state group to deploy the ShadowHammer backdoor on up to one million ...
A cybercriminal campaign focused on targeting the supply chain through the exploitation of ASUS Live Update software may have involved the installation of backdoors on over one million PCs. On Monday, ...
It's a good idea to periodically check for firmware updates for all of your hardware devices, especially in this era of the Internet of Things (IoT). We could go on a whole tangent about the state of ...