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High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models


Many models receive patches; others will need to be replaced.

It stems from a buffer overflow flaw and allows remote hackers who have already obtained administrative access to an affected router to execute commands. In recent months, both nation-state espionage spies and financially motivated threat actors have been found camping out in routers, sometimes simultaneously. Hackers backed by the Russian and Chinese governments regularly wage attacks on critical infrastructure from routers that are connected to IP addresses with reputations for trustworthiness.

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