FCC Bans Import of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers Citing National Security Risks

The FCC announced a ban on imports of new foreign-made consumer routers, citing "unacceptable" cyber and national security risks. The action follows years of intelligence community warnings about backdoors and vulnerabilities in routers manufactured by adversary-linked companies. The ban takes effect during a period of heightened Iranian and Russian cyber operations against US infrastructure, with CISA having identified 136 CVEs actively targeted by Iranian state actors and over 3,100 critical infrastructure entities confirming exposure.