Maybe ASUS and other companies should be more proactive and lock their doors, instead of reacting only when bad actors invite themselves in. The company said it’s also supposed to reduce the chance of future, similar attacks. So ASUS has released a new version of its Live Update software in response to the Shadow Hammer threat. Those types of attacks are orchestrated by another country, and typically go after international organizations instead of regular, everyday consumers.Įither way, nobody wants to be the victim of international espionage. The malware is being called, “Shadow Hammer,” and it’s believed this might have been what’s known as an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). Once it found one of those targeted computers, that’s when the malware was deployed. That’s because the malware came with instructions to seek out 600 specific systems. But here’s the unusual part: it seems the hackers were after a particular set of targets. Malware doesn’t often get more convincing than that.
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