Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors

Ive just checked mine all good so far. RT-AX86U

Interesting.
All talking about Huawei is bad but today they complain a Korean "good" company, lol.

There’s kind of a big difference between accidental coding mistakes that are patched, and backdoors that are just moved to other parts of the code, as Hauwei and Dahua have been caught doing.

I read the other day that TP-Link routers are vulnerable as well.

TP-Link Info

syntoh said:

Interesting.
All talking about Huawei is bad but today they complain a Korean "good" company, lol.

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ASUS is Taiwanese. Big difference, nobody from the government or ex-military creates giant Taiwanese companies.

pseymour said:

There’s kind of a big difference between accidental coding mistakes that are patched, and backdoors that are just moved to other parts of the code, as Hauwei and Dahua have been caught doing.

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Huawei and Dahua are subject to the Chinese Communist Party "military-civil fusion" rules.

Its goal is to enable the PRC to develop the most technologically advanced military in the world. As the name suggests, a key part of MCF is the elimination of barriers between China’s civilian research and commercial sectors, and its military and defense industrial sectors. The CCP is implementing this strategy, not just through its own research and development efforts, but also by acquiring and diverting the world’s cutting-edge technologies – including through theft – in order to achieve military dominance.

from Technical Difficulties

Under ths set of rules, the CCP can compel any private company engaged in normal commerce to spy on the US and other countries.


Also US Department of Defense issues updated section 1260H Chinese military companies list < Jan 2025 list

Uhhhh okay?