According to an article in its
company blog, the security company Kaspersky Lab has uncovered one of the biggest malware infections of recent years. According to the company, the antivirus software was able to detect malware on more than 57,000 computers, which a hacker had smuggled into a server of the Taiwanese hardware manufacturer ASUS. The previously unknown perpetrator, in the action called ‚Operation ShadowHammer‘ by Kaspersky, has hidden his malware in the software ‚ASUS Live Update Utility‘ and distributed it to Asus customers who wanted to obtain this software directly from the company’s download page.
According to Kaspersky, the malware was distributed via ASUS software from June to November 2018, and ASUS was informed of the infection of its update server on January 31, 2019.
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Kaspersky extrapolated the distribution of infected computers by country from the 57,000 or so computers...
