Ars is running an article about a vulnerability of Asus routers that are becoming very popular at the moment
for connecting USB devices to the Internet. From the article: 'An Ars
reader by the name of Jerry got a nasty surprise as he was browsing the
contents of his external hard drive over the weekend — a mysterious text file
warning him that he had been hacked thanks to a critical vulnerability
in the Asus router he used ... The guerilla-style hacking disclosure
comes eight months after a security researcher publicly disclosed the underlying vulnerability
that exposed the hard drives of ... Asus router users. ... According
to Lovett, the weakness affects a variety of Asus router models,
including the RT-AC66R, RT-AC66U, RT-N66R, RT-N66U, RT-AC56U, RT-N56R,
RT-N56U, RT-N14U, RT-N16, and RT-N16R. Asus reportedly patched the
vulnerabilities late last week...' And this old news, come new again:
The Asuswrt Merlin ROM took care of this vulnerability months ago (defect #17).
