{"id":9265,"date":"2026-08-06T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-ship-with-backdoor-that-opens-unauthenticated-root-shells\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:13:02","slug":"chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-ship-with-backdoor-that-opens-unauthenticated-root-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-ship-with-backdoor-that-opens-unauthenticated-root-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a &#8220;factory-shipped backdoor&#8221; implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that span more than 2 years. The backdoors are designed such that they start automatically and attempt to beacon to Chinese\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a &#8220;factory-shipped backdoor&#8221; implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that span more than 2 years. The backdoors are designed such that they start automatically and attempt to beacon to Chinese\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a &#8220;factory-shipped backdoor&#8221; implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink. According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that span more than 2 years. The backdoors are designed such that they start automatically and attempt&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-ship-with-backdoor-that-opens-unauthenticated-root-shells\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}