Solved RT-AX86U - Stuck on old firmware (solved!), WiFi not working (solved!)

[ColinTaylor]

@CrashXRu When first reporting the problem to Asus customer support I don't think it's a good idea to include all the pa data (that's if there is any!). That is not particularly helpful to them at that stage and might create confusion. I think it would be better to stick with just the following information which demonstrates the mismatch between the hardware and what's printed on the case label.

nvram show | grep -E 'macaddr|^odmpid|^secret|^serial'

If they need more information later they can always ask for it.

 

[Tech9]

Over the last week I have restored more than 4 routers with such problems

Same here. On Monday alone five different people contacted me with this problem.

Did you guys managed to spot what may be eventually causing this condition?

 

[CrashXRu]

We are sure that the reason is one of the proprietary applications in ASUS routers
there are several of them used

There is a large integration of applications
AiCloud+AiDisk+DDNS ASUS

and there are smaller ones
AiProtection


I interviewed owners of damaged devices for a long time, all of them had a public IP address with configured access services to the router, through the application, and some also used access to files on the connected disk to the router

 

[Tech9]

Any suspected relation between recently found AiCloud related malware and this issue?

RT-AX88U maxing out a core and regularly showing 60+ MB/s upload

I had Diversion and Skynet running but have since disabled them, suspecting that may be the culprit. Essentially, I can't see any device connected to my network that is sending large amounts of data, but when I look at the traffic monitor (Analyzer) it shows this: I only have ~30Mbps of...

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[CrashXRu]

Any suspected relation between recently found AiCloud related malware and this issue?

RT-AX88U maxing out a core and regularly showing 60+ MB/s upload

I had Diversion and Skynet running but have since disabled them, suspecting that may be the culprit. Essentially, I can't see any device connected to my network that is sending large amounts of data, but when I look at the traffic monitor (Analyzer) it shows this: I only have ~30Mbps of...

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it's the same thing, the first symptoms of the problem are
*high CPU load
*incoming or outgoing traffic
*the appearance of foreign processes, for example Sofia
* last stage loss of factory configuration

firmware version is not important, what firmware is not important
the problem was also noticed in Asia, on the Koolshare project

 

[shinasoba]

Have we got a guided fix for introvert like myself who do wish to bother others for help? Or at this stage I do need to seek assistance from the experts who have been helping many other vicitms out there