More than 9,000 Asus routers were silently hacked, and if you own one, there’s a chance yours is on that list. Luckily, you don’t have to wait for things to go south to find out. Over 9,000 ASUS ...
A concerning security alert has just hit the tech and cybersecurity worlds. Thousands of ASUS routers have been compromised in a widespread hacking campaign. These devices aren’t just a little bit ...
Thousands of Asus routers have been hacked and are under the control of a suspected China-state group that has yet to reveal its intentions for the mass compromise, researchers said. The hacking spree ...
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TL;DR: GreyNoise uncovered the AyySSHush botnet infecting over 8,000 hosts, mainly ASUS routers, exploiting known bypass bugs to gain persistent SSH backdoor access that survives firmware updates.
Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to form a major botnet, exploiting vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-39780. Attackers installed persistent backdoors, making detection difficult. Users are ...