Backdoor Found In TP-Link Routers

New submitter NuclearCat writes "Polish security researchers have found a backdoor in TP-Link routers, allowing an attacker to not only gain root access to the local network, but also to knock down the router via a CSRF attack remotely. (Further information — Google translation of Russian original). According to the researchers, TP-Link hasn't yet responded to give an answer about issue. The good news: Users who replaced their TP-Link firmware with Open/DD-WRT firmware can sleep well."

Et tu, China?

[Anonymous Coward]

With every government in the world wanting their own backdoors to everything these days, designing firmware for modern routers must be akin to being a carpenter tasked with building a house to satisfy 300 different feuding owners.

Re:Et tu, China?

[stevegee58]

The last time I posted a comment about Chinese products containing malware I was voted down as flamebait and accused of being a racist.

Re:Et tu, China?

[AK Marc]

Sony has shipped backdoors. Cisco has shipped backdoors. HP, Microsoft, and probably everyone else (they just might not all get press - I know personally of the HP case because I worked there for that one, apparently someone let the imaging machine get infected to where the HP recovery media had a virus rootkit on them, burned and shipped). Everyone on the planet is looking at "China" closer than anyone else, and the discovery rate is lower than US rate, but one company, TP-Link, has one issue, and suddenly, it's a coordinated Chinese attack on us. It's that logical disconnect that earns you a racist tag.