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.
Thousands of home and small office routers manufactured by Asus are being infected with a stealthy backdoor that can survive reboots and firmware updates in an attack by a nation-state or another well ...
Cybersecurity company GreyNoise reported an advanced and persistent attack infecting thousands of ASUS home and small office routers. The covert campaign, suspected to be carried out by a nation-state ...