The FBI has been tipped to a hack of around 130,000 Asus routers, details of which are available on the dark web – for sale. To incentivize the sale, the crook has scored each router as to how useful it might be to launch attacks. Access to these devices is being sold for as little […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Asus Was Not Alone I wrote about the Asus supply chain attack in March (search for Asus in the blog search box). Attackers, somehow, compromised the development environment, injected malware and allowed the system to compile, digitally sign and distribute it through the software update process. Hundreds of thousands of clients were infected as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting combination of countries. Multi-billion dollar Taiwan based computer make Asus makes a wide range of computers sold worldwide. Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky, whom the White House says is a threat to national security and should be banned (which I basically think is mostly true), identified that hackers attacked Asus’s software update […]
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