ASUSGATE concerns security flaws and responses involving ASUS routers and ASUS as the vendor.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 5 Details
“this incident ASUSGATE”
Incident
incident:asusgate
The incident involving publicly exposed ASUS router FTP services and unauthorized access to customers' files.
The incident involving publicly exposed ASUS router FTP services and unauthorized access to customers' files.
“The note also called this incident ASUSGATE.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | ASUS | Explicit | 5 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | ASUS N66 | Derived | 5 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | anonymous FTP access | Explicit | 5 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | cleartext password exposure | Explicit | 5 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | 4Chan | Uncertain | 5 |
ASUSGATE concerns security flaws and responses involving ASUS routers and ASUS as the vendor.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 5 Details
“this incident ASUSGATE”
ASUSGATE involved the ASUS router model that Kyle tested and related ASUS router models.
Derived Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 5 Details
“The vulnerabilities he found were present on ten different Asus router models”
ASUSGATE INVOLVES anonymous FTP access
The incident involved anonymous FTP servers on vulnerable ASUS routers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 5 Details
“found just over ten thousand IPs that were running the anonymous FTP server”
ASUSGATE INVOLVES cleartext password exposure
The incident involved public disclosure of the clear-text password flaw.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Kyle Lovett EP 5 Details
“That’s when I went on there and I put that one disclosure about the clear text password”
ASUSGATE ASSOCIATED_WITH 4Chan
The note was signed by /G, which Jack says may mean the hackers originated from 4Chan's technology board; the association is uncertain.
Uncertain Confidence 84% · Jack Rhysider EP 5 Details
“This may mean the hackers originated from the technology board on 4Chan which uses /G as their name”