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Bad Actors Using MitM Attacks against ASUS to Distribute Plead Backdoor
By David Bisson on Tue, 05/14/2019
Researchers believe bad actors are using man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks against ASUS software to distribute the Plead backdoor. Near the end of April 2019, researchers at ESET observed several attack attempts that both created and executed the Plead backdoor using "AsusWSPanel.exe," a legitimate process which belongs to the Windows client for the...