Asus
 Asus  (Computer manufacturer)   | |
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| Formation | 2 April 1989 |
| Headquarters | Taiwan |
| The world's 5th-largest PC vendor by unit sales | |
Asus was, in 2017, the world's 5th-largest PC vendor by unit sales. Its products include desktop computers, laptops, netbooks, mobile phones, networking equipment, monitors, wi-fi routers, projectors, motherboards, graphics cards, optical storage, multimedia products, peripherals, wearables, servers, workstations, and tablet PCs. The company is also an original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
Spyware
In March 2019, Kaspersky reported that around 1,000,000 Asus computers had been infected with malware as a result of a hack which arose from a bogus upgrade utility installed on the company's servers in Taiwan, which fetched and installed a backdoored version of the Asus Live Update Utility. This was signed by company's digital key. Reportedly analysis of the targetted MAC addresses revealed that around 600 specific machines were being targetted.[1]
