TL;DR: GreyNoise uncovered the AyySSHush botnet infecting over 8,000 hosts, mainly ASUS routers, exploiting known bypass bugs to gain persistent SSH backdoor access that survives firmware updates.
When thinking about computer security, you probably consider your PC and phone first and foremost. But there’s a lot of hardware between you and the nebulous malefactors of the internet, and it’s ...