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Hackers Snuck Backdoors Into ASUS Software Updates, Infecting Thousands

Cybersecurity reporter Kim Zetter revealed that one of the worlds largest computer manufacturers, Taiwan-based ASUS, had mistakenly installed a backdoor program dubbed ShadowHammer onto the computers of thousands of customers. Initial estimates suggest the trojanized update may have affected up to half a million Windows machines. Kaspersky reported 57,000 users of the product were attacked, but we estimate it was distributed to about 1 million people total The full scope of the attack has yet to be established.”]

Source: https://gizmodo.com/hackers-snuck-backdoors-into-asus-software-updates-inf-1833555826

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