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ASUS LIVE UPDATE MALWARE VERIFICATION
However, Asus does say it’s taken steps to ensure such a trojan horse won’t make it through again, including “multiple security verification mechanisms to prevent any malicious manipulation” and “an enhanced end-to-end encryption mechanism.”
ASUS LIVE UPDATE MALWARE PATCH
ASUS has now released a patch to secure systems. According to Kaspersky, hackers apparently leveraged a back door attack and modified the ASUS Live Update Utility so it delivered a payload with malware making it seem as though it was coming. Both Kaspersky and Symantec say they’d identified the malware in at least tens of thousands of cases. Yesterday we reported about a warning from Kaspersky that the ASUS Live Update Utility had been hacked to deliver ShadowHammer backdoor malware.
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The company’s press release notably does not include an apology, and it downplays the hack, stating that “Only a very small number of specific user group were found to have been targeted.” Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab had previously estimated that the malware could have been distributed to as many as 1 million computers, and installed on hundreds of thousands of those machines, which doesn’t sound like a small number to me. The sketchy code didn’t get on those machines via a hacked website or malicious browser extension. Like everything else distributed via the Asus Live Update tool, the programs were. Asus sells a lot of laptops, and Kaspersky says a shocking number of those devices were infected with malware last year. According to Kaspersky, the malware arrived on machines for about five months last year, from June to November.
ASUS LIVE UPDATE MALWARE INSTALL
“e encourage users who are still concerned to run it as a precaution,” reads part of the company’s press release, which includes a link to the software. Asus Live Update Pushed Malware to 1 Million PCs - ExtremeTech. In March 2019, Motherboard reported that the software update tool that Asus installs on its laptops had been used to install malware on about half a million computers. In addition, the company says it has a second “security diagnostic” tool you can use to scan to see if your computer has been affected. Now, Asus says it has a fix in the form of an actual security update - one that you can download using its Live Update software tool. Kaspersky estimated that around 500,000 devices downloaded the malicious update through ASUS’ live update tool but only about 600 systems were targeted.
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That “critical” software update for your Asus computer may have actually been malware, planted by hackers in a targeted attack now known as “ShadowHammer,” we learned yesterday. ShadowHammer Virus from Asus Updates Infects One Million Asus Computers Cormac Bracken MaNo Comments 109 views An estimated one million Asus computers have been infected with malware carried by the company’s own software updates, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab. A file containing the malware with the malicious code was signed with legitimate ASUS digital certificates that made the Live Update tool think that the patch was authentic.