Walmart-exclusive router and others sold on Amazon & eBay contain hidden backdoors
Found on Cybernews on Saturday, 05 December 2020
Suspicious backdoors have been discovered in a Chinese-made Jetstream router, sold exclusively at Walmart as their new line of “affordable” wifi routers. This backdoor would allow an attacker the ability to remotely control not only the routers, but also any devices connected to that network.
Besides the Walmart-exclusive Jetstream router, the cybersecurity research team also discovered that low-cost Wavlink routers, normally sold on Amazon or eBay, have similar backdoors. The Wavlink routers also contain a script that lists nearby wifi and has the capability to connect to those networks.
In the old days, criminals had to actually break into your system; now, they just sell pre-infected hardware.