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For anyone who has an Asus
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/shadow-hammer-teaser/26149/
A threat actor modified the ASUS Live Update Utility, which delivers BIOS, UEFI, and software updates to ASUS laptops and desktops, added a back door to the utility, and then distributed it to users through official channels.
The trojanized utility was "signed with a legitimate certificate and was hosted on the official ASUS server" dedicated to updates, and that allowed it to stay undetected for a long time. The criminals even made sure the file size of the malicious utility stayed the same as that of the original one.
holy f*ck. doesn't big company check their shit before releasing no more?
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Personally used to use long time ago and all bios updates files were stored on Chinese odd websites, I personally don't surprised about the news, what do you expect if they do save money on security, exactly the same as some businesses in UK still using XP and windows 7 and wagons load of excuses not to migrate to new OS!
You should mention
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they targeted only 600 specific MAC addresses, for which the hashes were hardcoded into different versions of the utility.
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I have an Anus.
you should protect your back door.
+1
No just one atm. Sometimes I could use +1 though.
This violation will not stand. I am going to lie down.
I would have sworn that I read 'For anyone who has an Anus'.
It must be have been the lowend feeling ;-)
This won't affect BIOS fw installed via Windows will it? Just the update utility?
Adobe Backdoor Protection Suite:
Never use official software....
Adobe Creative Cloud
ButtholesAccounts Exposedhttps://mashable.com/article/adobe-creative-cloud-accounts-exposed/?europe=true
The whole cloud obsession is just opening up a lot more rear ends that needs to be plugged. I prefer to cover my own ass and not expose them unnecessarily.
Which is a sad thing. Everyone knowing about the beauty of your ass can confirm this.