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Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I read all that, I just didnt believe that the end result was that we were supposed to manually check every ASUS router in order to find the vulnerable ones. Seems like it should be limited to certain models/firmwares, or am I missing something still?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 months ago

Just read dohpaz42's comment. They literally copy and pasted for you the relevant text: How to check if you're infected already, and how to protect yourself in the future (which means apply updates).