Thousands of ASUS routers hacked in persistent compromise
Thousands of ASUS routers were compromised in a sophisticated hacking attack. The compromise reportedly persists even after reboots and updates.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Thousands of ASUS routers
- Cause / method
- Router hacking that persists through reboots and updates
- Location
- Other countries
Timeline
- It emerged that thousands of ASUS routers had been hacked and that the compromise persisted through reboots and updates.
- ASUS router users were urged to check whether their devices had been hacked.
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