On October 6, 2026, Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska sued TP-Link for misleading consumers about router security, while the FCC still denies it an exemption to the ban on routers made outside the US. In parallel, SEC Consult detailed five flaws in the Aginet line — CVE-2025-30237 through CVE-2025-30241 — some of which will never be patched on affected models: inventory your TP-Link hardware before trusting its update channel.

The Mirai-derived modular botnet Evooo1Bot has been recruiting internet-exposed gateways — Alcatel, NETGEAR, Tenda, D-Link — into resellable SOCKS5 relay nodes since July. Fortinet documents a full arsenal whose economic novelty, the residential relay, should push every operator to inventory their internet-facing routers.