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.

Frankly, I'm not sure a feature like remote SSH control should even be included in the base firmware in the first place on home routers. In all my years managing network interfaces, I have yet to find ...

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 ...

Heads up if you have an Asus router in your home or office, as there's a backdoor exploit doing the rounds affecting 9,000 devices and counting. This event came to light by way of the security firm ...

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, ...

I assume this is not the case because if you (or your parents) do not know that the router is updating and you (or your parents) suddenly loose internet, which will happen during an update, you (or ...