<ul><li>Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to create a major botnet by threat actors exploiting security vulnerabilities.</li><li>The hackers gained initial access by exploiting poorly secured routers using brute force and authentication bypass methods.</li><li>They abused a known command injection flaw (CVE-2023-39780) to establish persistent access and create a botnet.</li><li>The attackers can maintain long-term access without dropping malware traces, with the number of compromised devices steadily increasing.</li></ul>

Thousands of Asus routers hacked to create a major botnet planting damaging malware

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