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title: "Hackers Hijacked ASUS Live Update Utility and Installed Backdoors"
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<span style="color: #353536">Hackers hijacked the ASUS Live Update Utility to install backdoors on some computers. Although as many as 500,000 machines may have been compromised, the attackers appear to have been interested in just a fraction of those; they appear to have searched for specific MAC addresses of about 600 machines. If they found a MAC address they were looking for, they installed more malware in the machine through the backdoor. ASUS Live Update Utility comes pre-installed on most new ASUS computers. Kaspersky Lab detected the attack in January and notified ASUS.</span>

Source: SANS NewsBites Vol. 21 Num. 024 | 

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