Maharashtra Cyber Office releases advisory on Operation ShadowHammer

Submitted by dhananjay on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 19:31

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Mumbai : Kaspersky Labs has discovered a sophisticated supply chain attack involving the ​ASUS Live Update Utility affecting more than a million computer users worldwide through a campaign called ​ShadowHammer​.

Maharashtra Cyber Office has released an advisory on Operation ShadowHammer which refers to the ​online tool developed by Kaspersky Labs which can determine if your computer has been one of the surgically selected targets of this attack. Tool compares MAC addresses of all adapters to a list of predefined values hardcoded in the malware and alerts if a match was found. Users can use "ipconfig /all" command to find MAC address.

Please note that ​only ASUS Windows users are affected​. If you own a device running MacOS or any of its distributions, you are not affected and need not check.