And China wants to expand economic ties with Canada? Why would they, at this point?
See, no backdoors in Huawei equipment.
Full of them in US equipment though.
The hackers exploited CVE-2023-20198 to retrieve running configuration files from the devices and modified at least one of the files to create a GRE tunnel allowing traffic collection from the network the devices were connected to.
tbf they've been patched for ages and/or you can just turn the http web interface off, it's 2 lines of config that takes 30 seconds to apply
We were alerted on the day and had a fix rolled out by end of day on hundreds of routers, this is a bit embarrassing for the canadian telcom tbh
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