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James Bentley

MYSTERIOUS: Update your myasus software now because there s a fix for a nasty hack that could easily ruin your day - What They Never Told You

Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi motherboard.

If you have an Asus PC, laptop, AIO, or mini PC, you might want to make sure your pre-installed apps are up-to-date. That's generally always good advice, but with the patching of a high-severity exploit in Asus' MyAsus app, it's particularly true right now.

As posted to the Asus security board, "An uncontrolled DLL loading path vulnerability exists in AsusSoftwareManagerAgent." With this, an attacker could mess with the app, "potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution". From here, the attacker could have a pretty serious level of access to your rig.

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