Hackers expose eight-month-old Asus weakness by leaving note on victims' drives! According to Kyle Lovett, the weakness affects a variety of Asus router models, including the RT-AC66R, RT-AC66U, RT-N66R, RT-N66U, RT-AC56U, RT-N56R, RT-N56U, RT-N14U, RT-N16, and RT-N16R. Asus reportedly patched the vulnerabilities late last week, but as Jerry's experience demonstrates, it has yet to be installed on some vulnerable routers.

The exploits against the Asus router coincide with the discovery of a round of attacks that infect Linksys routers with self-replicating malware. The Linksys exploits don't expose any user data, and infected machines can be restored to their normal state by being rebooted. The in-the-wild exploits against both Asus and Linksys devices come two weeks after researchers in Poland reported an ongoing attack that stole online banking credentials in part by modifying home routers' DNS settings.