"Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack..."

[SpacemanSpiff]

Looks like an ASUS router vulnerability that was identified in May 2025 has been showing activity again

 

[Timokreon]

Yeah, I got rid of my Asus routers. Went to Opnsense and the newer Unifi U7 Dream router.

 

[bp2008]

For some reason I find it surprising that 50,000 people thought it was a good idea to turn on remote access to their routers. You don't want to do that even with Opnsense or Unifi. Unifi's cloud management scares me too -- yet many businesses use it even though you'd think they would know better.

 

[The Automation Guy]

For some reason I find it surprising that 50,000 people thought it was a good idea to turn on remote access to their routers. You don't want to do that even with Opnsense or Unifi. Unifi's cloud management scares me too -- yet many businesses use it even though you'd think they would know better.

I'm surprised it's not MORE than 50k....

The average homeowner has ZERO knowledge of what the different settings on their router really mean - especially when it comes to network security. Of course most people on this forum are not "average" or they wouldn't have found this site to begin with.

 

[looney2ns]

For some reason I find it surprising that 50,000 people thought it was a good idea to turn on remote access to their routers. You don't want to do that even with Opnsense or Unifi. Unifi's cloud management scares me too -- yet many businesses use it even though you'd think they would know better.

My new Asus router that I installed a month ago, came with remote access off by default.