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.

This week cybersecurity firm GreyNoise discovered that cybercriminals were silently installing backdoors in ASUS routers, seemingly with a view to using them for further attacks. The company first ...

More than 14,000 devices are believed to be infected, and about 60 percent of them are located in the United States.

Heads up if you have an Asus router in your home or office, as there's a backdoor exploit doing the rounds affecting 9,000 devices and counting. This event came to light by way of the security firm ...

The thing about routers is that they're mostly a set-and-forget type of device. Once you finish configuring your Wi-Fi and basic settings, you typically won't be touching the router again — unless, of ...