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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...

Some ASUS Updates Drop Backdoors on PCs in ‘Operation ShadowHammer’
2019-03-25 16:40

The attack appears to be associated with a China-backed APT actor.

Warning: ASUS Software Update Server Hacked to Distribute Malware
2019-03-25 16:18

Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017....

Attackers compromised ASUS to deliver backdoored software updates
2019-03-25 15:48

Unknown attackers have compromised an update server belonging to Taiwanese computer and electronics maker ASUS and used it to push a malicious backdoor on a huge number of customers, Kaspersky Lab...