Security researchers identified backdoors in certain Chinese-made routers sold worldwide, with firmware that appears to give operators remote access to or control over the devices, raising supply-chain concerns for home and small-office infrastructure. The finding landed on the same day as the White House ban on foreign-made bulk-power equipment and reinforces the wider hardware supply-chain tension in Western markets, although the scope here is consumer and small-office routers rather than the grid equipment the executive order addresses.

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