{"id":6826,"date":"2019-03-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/datcomWP\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2019-03-26T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:00:00","slug":"alert-over-a-million-asus-laptops-could-have-been-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/alert-over-a-million-asus-laptops-could-have-been-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: Over a Million Asus Laptops Could Have Been Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own an Asus laptop, there is a chance that a recent update could have installed malware, and we are urging anyone who has an Asus device reach out to us to have it looked at.<\/p>\n<p><!--more>Numbers are still coming in as far as how widespread this issue is. As of Monday, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said potentially thousands of Asus computers were infected, but on Tuesday that number has potentially broken a million.\n\n\n<h2>How Could My Asus Laptop Get Hacked?<\/h2>\n\n\nThis type of attack is called a Supply-Chain Compromise and is one of the most frightening kinds of cybersecurity threats out there. Asus\u2019s software update system was compromised by hackers, putting a backdoor into consumer devices. The scariest part is that this backdoor was distributed last year and it\u2019s just being noticed now.\n\nThe good news is this has given Asus plenty of time to plug up the security holes on their end, but if you own an Asus device there is still a chance that it is infected with malware from the initial attack.\n\n\n<h2>What Do I Do Now?<\/h2>\n\n\nFirst and foremost, no matter what brand of computer or laptop you have, you need to make sure you have antivirus, and that antivirus needs to be licensed and kept up-to-date.\n\nIf you have an Asus device, Asus has released an update in the latest version of their Live Update Software. They\u2019ve also patched their internal systems to help prevent similar attacks from happening in the future. You\u2019ll want to make sure you have Live Update 3.6.9 installed.\n\nAsus has also released a security diagnostic tool that will check your system to see if it has been affected. Click here to download the tool.\n\nWe HIGHLY encourage you to reach out to COMPANYNAME if you are running any Asus hardware. It\u2019s better to be safe than sorry.\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own an Asus laptop, there is a chance that a recent update could have installed malware, and we are urging anyone who has an Asus device reach out to us to have it looked at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[66,55,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}