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.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Asus is recommending users update the firmware on some of its most popular routers in order to ...

When thinking about computer security, you probably consider your PC and phone first and foremost. But there’s a lot of hardware between you and the nebulous malefactors of the internet, and it’s ...

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 ...

Security researchers at Greynoise first detected the exploit back in March, but held off on making it public until the industry had time to coordinate a response. GreyNoise has identified an ongoing ...

Not every VPN works with an Asus router, and not every VPN that does can be relied on. Here's our list of the best Asus router VPNs and how to use them. Asus manufactures some of the most popular ...