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Rael Hornby

TP-Link routers may face nationwide ban after 'significantly alarming' link to US cyberattacks

TP-Link routers targeted by Chinese state-sponsored cyber attacks.

Who doesn't love TP-Link's exceptional catalog of well-performing and fairly priced routers? They help keep gamers lag-free, streamers out of the buffer zone, and smart homes in full working order.

They are also a vital networking backbone of many small businesses worldwide—allegedly including many Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups armed with several rather large botnets gathered by exploiting vulnerabilities within the hardware to perform all sorts of cybersecurity shenanigans.

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