Kaspersky Lab confirmed that perhaps a million Asus PCs have unwittingly downloaded an infected version of the Asus Live Update utility using an attack called ShadowHammer. Asus has issued a patch.

Asus confirmed today that its Live Update utility has been indeed infected with malicious code by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of a supply chain attack which managed to ...

ASUS released today a new version of the Live Update tool that contains fixes for vulnerabilities that were exploited by a nation-state group to deploy the ShadowHammer backdoor on up to one ...

Beyond that, the compromised utility was stored on ASUS's update servers and was even the same size as the original file, so it seems these hackers went to pretty specific lengths to make sure ...

If you own of an Asus computer, your system might have been infected by malware distributed from the tool you typically use to update your computer BIOS and install other security patches. That's ...

"ASUS Live Update is an utility that is pre-installed on most ASUS computers and is used to automatically update certain components such as BIOS, UEFI, drivers and applications," says GReAT in the ...

While ASUS stressed that the attack impacted “only a very small number of specific user group were found to have been targeted by this attack,” the ASUS Live Update Utility is pre-installed in ...

Software security firm Kaspersky Lab announced that Asus computer users were targeted last year with malware via Asus' update utility in a so-called 'supply-chain attack.' ...

The ASUS Live Update utility comes pre-installed on the computer manufacturer's machines. This software helps you keep your computer up to date by periodically checking for driver and BIOS updates ...