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sneak
on May 18, 2023
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What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
This is the danger of allowing your vendor to automatically remotely execute arbitrary code on your devices.
yosito
on May 18, 2023
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He had auto updates turned off, so there was no "allowing" happening. It's not even clear yet what happened, but one possibility is that this was someone taking advantage of an exploit on routers that had NOT been automatically updated.
garbagewoman
on May 18, 2023
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yes, as you suggest, it appears that Asus routers were targeted by a 0day that they are known to lack the skills to deal with
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