Are ASICs Resistant to Malware Attacks? One of the arguments made in favor of relying on ASIC mining hardware to secure the Bitcoin blockchain is that commodity hardware is more prone to a 51% attack since an attacker could easily infect millions of computers through a malware attack and use the computer's resources to execute a 51% attack against the network.

It's very hard to.. hack into someone's SHA256d ASICs

Are ASICs really resistant to malware attacks? If so, why?
Resistance to malware really just comes down to the security practices of the hardware's operator.
Simply put, we might expect that the admin of a mining farm would be quite vigilant in terms of security, compared to your average person with a PC at home. Thus, we could expect that it is easier to infect and control the average PC, compared to a mining farm.