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Here's the List of ~600 MAC Addresses Targeted in Recent ASUS Hack
2019-03-29 11:03

EXCLUSIVE — While revealing details of a massive supply chain cyber attack against ASUS customers, Russian security firm Kaspersky last week didn't release the full list all MAC addresses that...

Malware Installed in Asus Computers Through Hacked Update Process
2019-03-28 11:42

Kaspersky Labs is reporting on a new supply chain attack they call "Shadowhammer." In January 2019, we discovered a sophisticated supply chain attack involving the ASUS Live Update Utility. The...

ASUS Patches Hijacked System Update Utility
2019-03-27 13:32

ASUS says it has released a fix for the Live Update utility that threat actors abused in Operation ShadowHammer supply chain attack to deliver malware to hundreds of users.  read more

ASUS confirms server compromise, releases fixed Live Update tool
2019-03-27 10:27

ASUS has finally confirmed that its servers were compromised and that its ASUS Live Update tool has been tampered with, as revealed on Monday. “ASUS has also implemented a fix in the latest...

Asus: Yo dawg, we hear a million of you got pwned by a software update. So we got you an update for the update
2019-03-26 18:45

PC maker emits legit version of its driver, BIOS upgrade util after supply chain hijack Asus has released an update for its software update utility to rid about a million of its notebooks of a...

ASUS Patches Live Update Bug That Allowed APT to Infect Thousands of PCs
2019-03-26 15:35

If users have an impacted devices, they need to immediately run a backup of their files and restore their operating system to factory settings, said ASUS

Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed A million or so Asus personal computers may have downloaded spyware from the computer maker's update servers and installed it, Kaspersky...

Spyware slips into 'million plus' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed A million or more Asus personal computers may have downloaded spyware from the computer maker's update servers and installed it,...

Kaspersky: Asus shipped 'million-plus' pre-pwned PCs that downloaded backdoor from update server
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed Asus may have shipped more than a million computers with compromised firmware that downloaded and ran spyware on the machines, Kaspersky...

Supply-Chain Attack Used to Install Backdoors on ASUS Computers
2019-03-25 17:16

Hijacked Software Update Utility Could Have Impacted Over 1 Million ASUS Users Over 1 million ASUS users may have been impacted after attackers managed to inject a backdoor in the ASUS Live Update...