Yesterday, we reported on a rather alarming security exploit which took advantage of a weakness in the ASUS Live Update utility installed on millions of PCs. Operation ShadowHammer took advantage of Live Update to gain a backdoor to users’ PCs and download malware in the background.

ASUS was initially notified of Operation ShadowHammer

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Releases Fix For Live Update Shadowhammer Backdoor Malware Attack