Malware damaging ASUS routers?

[Tech9]

Nothing really new and unusual in the EULA and Privacy Notice. They are there because some countries/regions now require full disclosure of what user data will be collected, where is will be stored and how it will be used. Asus does whatever they were doing before, just informing you now in a more transparent way in order to comply with the requirements.

 

[Tech9]

You already asked this question and got an answer.

Malware damaging ASUS routers?

If your router is not working, write to telegram @CrashXRu, I will restore the devices if possible

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[Tech9]

hardware damage

There is no physical hardware damage. What is damaged is configuration files and hardware stops working properly as a result.

 

[Mitt]

Is there potential risk that the devices have lingering malware in the devices, or can be considered insecure after being infected with malware with 100% certainty? Or is there potential malicious code may be lingering in these devices / the network?

 

[Tech9]

Is there potential risk

There is always potential risk to get hacked tomorrow using unknown today vulnerability. AiCloud issue is case closed now - new firmware addressing it was released and even firmware reversing damages for most affected model.

 

[Mitt]

Its still on-going.

 

[Ripshod]

Its still on-going.


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Only for those who haven't updated and reset, as advised.

 

[gamernajin]

If your router is not working, write to telegram @CrashXRu, I will restore the devices if possible

Thank you so much @CrashXRu for fixing my RT-AX88U, man, thank you so much! You are our hero!

 

[soccerjoshj07]

Thank you so much @CrashXRu for fixing my RT-AX88U, man, thank you so much! You are our hero!

Glad you got it fixed!

 

[EdgarPoeXDA]

You already asked this question and got an answer.

Malware damaging ASUS routers?

If your router is not working, write to telegram @CrashXRu, I will restore the devices if possible

www.snbforums.com

UPDATE:
@CrashXRu is awesome! Our router like totally forgot its own identity after the attack. He had our gt-ax11000 back up and running in under 5 minutes, even better than the day it was bought. He's helped out a lot of members here.

If you SSH these commands and they end up returning nothing for each, then your router was hacked or zombied somehow and needs some reconfiguring:

ATE Get_DateCode
ATE Get wBom
ATE Get_HwId
ATE Get_HwVersion
ATE Get_PINCode
ATE Get_ModelName
ATE Get_SerialNumber
ATE Get_ TerritoryCode

Thanks again CrashxRu (Ruslan^2), you're a tremendous asset to this forum.
(His Telegram QR Code is attached below)

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OP. (Saturday, March 29th):
In the sinking boat with my GT-AX11000. Thanks so much for this report!
Mesh broke down, after a few years of solid operation. Out of nowhere the AX11000 factory reset itself. After that, can't re-establish mesh, and srarted having issues with self resets every half hour or so when memory runs out (actually sat and watched as crazy cpu going on and memory bar went to %100), and intermittent wifi. Only 5g-2 (N,AC,AX160) currently usable after a few hours each time installing firmware trials / factory resets. Almost looks like it would work fine with all radios at first, but then loosed 5g-1, and eventually 2g. I tried disabling those radios for now in Pro settings, but get the Country Code missing error.
Have an Orbi-mesh running until a possible fix is found.
I'll try getting ahold of CrashXRu