PC manufacturer Asus recently announced that from June to November 2018, attackers used its Asus Live Update app to install backdoors on targeted computers. Kaspersky indicated that about 57,000 systems installed the backdoored live update software. The theory is that attackers identified specific hardware systems, groups or computers sold to specific companies to gain more access to those systems. You have several ways to check the manufacturer and model of the motherboard installed on your system. For example, Intel has a series of motherboards based on the Apollo Lake chip that responds to the command indicating that the motherboard manufacturer is APL.”]