Routers are hardware that connect your home devices to the internet, but a new report find that some models have been shipped with an alarming backdoor — meaning you’re not the only one with access to your devices.
According to a recent post by cybersecurity firm VulnCheck, multiple models of routers manufactured and sold by Zbtlink are compromised, claims the company has since denied.
Jacob Baines, the chief technology officer at VulnCheck who found the
backdoor, said that 20 models made by Zbtlink have been shipped with an implant that communicates with cloud servers in China and could allow an attacker to take over the router and use it to access other connected devices on the router’s network.
Baines said he is concerned that “consumers in the United States are unaware that they are buying these, putting them in their network, and immediately just allowing someone else that they don’t know in a foreign country complete access to their network.”
