The Taiwanese computer company ASUS is acknowledging that suspected nation-state hackers planted malware on its online automatic update service in a sophisticated and targeted espionage operation. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab disclosed Monday that hackers infected tens of thousands of ASUS computers last year in the scheme. ASUS said in a prepared statement that the malware infected a small number of devices in an attempt to target a very small, specific user group. About 50 percent of the affected Kaspersky anti-virus software customers were in Russia, Germany and France, the company said. The infected software was on ASUS's Live Update servers from June to November and was signed with legitimate certificates, according to Kaspersky.

Source: ABC News March 26, 2019 17:03 UTC