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.
An IT security firm has discovered a sophisticated campaign to compromise Asus routers. The built-in backdoor is extremely persistent. Thousands of Asus routers have been taken over by unknown parties ...
This week cybersecurity firm GreyNoise discovered that cybercriminals were silently installing backdoors in ASUS routers, seemingly with a view to using them for further attacks. The company first ...
Following reports that a type of malware has infected more than 700,000 routers used in homes and small businesses in more than 50 countries, the FBI is urging all consumers to reboot their routers.