Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-03-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: ASUS
Affected country: Taiwan (Province of China)
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Researchers at Kaspersky Lab reveal the details of Operation #ShadowHammer: ASUS, one of the world's largest computer makers, was used to install a malicious backdoor on thousands of its customers' computers between June and November 2018.