U.S. authorities are investigating Chinese router producer TP-Link over nationwide safety dangers and contemplating banning its units, WSJ reported Wednesday, citing sources acquainted with the matter. The Commerce, Defense and Justice departments have launched separate probes into the corporate, which controls roughly 65% of the U.S. residence and small enterprise router market.
Microsoft reported in October that Chinese hackers had compromised 1000’s of TP-Link routers to launch cyberattacks towards Western targets, together with authorities organizations and Defense Department suppliers. The firm’s routers are extensively used throughout federal companies, together with the Defense Department and NASA. The Justice Department can also be analyzing whether or not TP-Link’s considerably decrease pricing violates federal anti-monopoly legal guidelines, the report stated.
