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.

ASUS warns its users to patch their routers to deal with critical vulnerabilities. Multiple router models were reported to be affected, with Asus already launching a security update. ASUS Urges Users ...

Users relying on Asus routers may still be exposed to a stealth backdoor campaign, even after updating firmware. Asus routers have been compromised in a stealth backdoor campaign that persists even ...

Three critical-severity remote code execution vulnerabilities impact ASUS RT-AX55, RT-AX56U_V2, and RT-AC86U routers, potentially allowing threat actors to hijack devices if security updates are not ...

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