The agency warns malicious actors have exploited foreign routers to attack US households and enable espionage.
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You may be sleeping with the enemy. Better yet, the foe may already be inside your house, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
According to a story by Fox News, the FCC is moving to impede new foreign-made internet routers from landing in the U.S. market, mentioning increasing concerns that overseas supply chains could lay bare American networks to cyber threats inside their own homes.
The action expands the agency’s “covered list,” which prohibits equipment deemed to pose an objectionable risk to national security and will in effect stop new foreign-manufactured routers from being allowed for sale in the U.S.
The FCC order means new routers must be fabricated in the United States or clear a national security review that inspects ownership, supply chains and software control to be sold domestically.
“Effectively, the FCC would ban all new routers, because there are no domestic routers that meet that standard today,” Matt Wyckhouse, founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Finite State, told Fox News Digital Wednesday. “There’s no one who can clear the bar right now.”
An assessment of router manufacturing and supply chains by Fox News Digital shows that almost all major router brands sold in the United States are contingent extensively on Chinese manufacturing, engineering talent or components, even when marketed as American or allied products.
Companies that have shifted production to countries like Vietnam often still depend on Chinese-owned manufacturers and engineering teams, meaning the supply chain footprint remains largely unchanged.
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