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.

More than 9,000 Asus routers were silently hacked, and if you own one, there’s a chance yours is on that list. Luckily, you don’t have to wait for things to go south to find out. Over 9,000 ASUS ...

Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to form a major botnet, exploiting vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-39780. Attackers installed persistent backdoors, making detection difficult. Users are ...

AyySSHush campaign targeting thousands of routers confirmed. Thousands of routers worldwide have been targeted by a sophisticated campaign that leverages a two-year-old vulnerability, authentication ...

Thousands of Asus home and small office routers around the world have been quietly taken over by hackers, as reported to Ars Technica. These hackers are using a hidden method to break into routers, ...

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Modern routers are considered secure access points to the internet, but are also repeatedly exploited for attacks. Hackers can take over routers, for example, to create a bot network unnoticed and use ...

You can also manually prompt it to get the latest update via the Microsoft Store by booting it up and finding the app. The ...