The vast majority of these MAC addresses belong to large corporations ASUStek, Intel, and AzureWave. ZDNet also received a cleartext copy earlier this week and had been looking into the vendors' whose MAC addresses were included on the list. Other security firms, like Qihoo 360, were already analyzing it even before today. Lists containing the MAC addresses in a hashed version have been going around the web all week -for example, this version uploaded on GitHub. 'Now, the unhashed list is free for everyone to use, researchers and organizations alike.' What's on the list?Īlthough the MAC list was made public today for the first time in a cleartext version, its content was never a secret. 'Kaspersky was probably distributing those lists through their paid service,' a Skylight Cyber spokesperson told ZDNet earlier today.

When the ASUS hack become public earlier this week, Kaspersky published an app that would check users' computers and report if they were on the hackers' very small list of potential targets. The backdoored Live Update tool would only install additional malware on certain computers that had a specific MAC address for their network interfaces. Not all ASUS users were targeted during this hack. The ASUS hack happened last year when suspected Chinese hackers breached the ASUS IT infrastructure and backdoored the company's Live Update tool that's installed on all ASUS notebooks to help with automatic firmware updates. The Skylight team obtained this list by reverse engineering a Windows app created by Kaspersky Lab to let ASUS users test if their computers were of interest to hackers.

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