Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
>This only affects ASUS machines running Live Update that was downloaded between June and November of 2018. That puts approximately 3-4 million machines sold by ASUS in that time frame, in addition to downloads from the web. It's likely that this malware is on your machine, but is dormant because only 600 specific MAC addresses would trigger the next stage of the malware. As of now, even if you have the malware it's likely not doing anything. Instead, this exposes a huge security oversight and example of attacking at the vendor/source level.
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