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Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

On my Asus router, the relevent SSH screen is under Administration -> System and looks like this:

My router wasn't compromised. If it was, ssh would be set to yes, and the sus key/port would be visible here. Please forgive the ultra paranoid purple boxes.

As far as IP blocking, I'm not sure it's necessary, but I followed this link. It's pretty easy to get new IPs, so if the attacker wanted to, they would do that. It's more important to update your router.