{"id":1026591,"date":"2026-08-06T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026591"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:37:49","slug":"chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-have-backdoor-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-have-backdoor-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-made Zbtlink routers have backdoor, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 models of a Chinese-made router available throughout the world ship with a backdoor that could allow access and potential connections to other devices on the network, researchers with cybersecurity firm VulnCheck said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The finding adds to growing Western concerns about cybersecurity risks posed by Chinese-made networking equipment. Western governments have warned for years about hackers exploiting such devices, and U.S. regulators moved \u200cthis year to \u2060restrict \u2060imports of foreign-made routers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 models of a Chinese-made router available throughout the world ship with a backdoor that could allow access and potential connections to other devices on the network, researchers with cybersecurity firm VulnCheck said on Wednesday. The finding adds to growing Western concerns about cybersecurity risks posed by Chinese-made networking equipment. Western governments have warned for years about hackers exploiting such devices, and U.S. regulators moved \u200cthis year to \u2060restrict \u2060imports of foreign-made routers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026611,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026591\/revisions\/1026611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}