Thousands of ASUS routers around the world have been hijacked in a sophisticated campaign believed to be backed by China.

According to SecurityScorecard’s Strike threat intelligence team, the WrtHug campaign leverages the proprietary AiCloud service with Nth day vulnerabilities in order to gain high privileges on end-of-life ASUS WRT routers.

The pattern of attacks and the severity of the vulnerabilities indicate potential command injection capabilities, if not root-level privileges, researchers warned.

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