Asus says only a small number of devices were actually targeted by the hackers behind the malicious update. Here’s how to see if your device was one of them.
Asus has released a free tool that can help you determine whether your PC was targeted by a newly uncovered supply chain attack on the company’s computers.
On Tuesday, the Taiwanese vendor confirmed that the Asus Live Update software tool was infiltrated by hackers last year to distribute a malicious update. «Asus customer service has been reaching out to affected users and providing assistance to ensure that the security risks are removed,» the company said in a press release.
The mysterious hackers may have distributed the malicious update to more than a million users, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab, which discovered the attack and reported it to Asus in late January. Motherboard was first to report the news.
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Why Asus didn’t warn customers about the malicious update sooner isn’t clear.
