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🔍 Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs reports a China-linked botnet called JDY has grown to over 1,500 compromised SOHO and IoT devices used to rapidly discover and fingerprint internet-facing systems after public vulnerability disclosures. The activity, tied to nation-state actors including Volt Typhoon, enables persistent, distributed reconnaissance that can evade geofencing and IP-reputation controls. Researchers warn this marks a shift toward industrialized pre-exploitation scanning and undermines traditional perimeter patch and monitoring assumptions.

🔒 The FCC has banned the import and sale of all consumer-grade internet routers manufactured in foreign countries, saying they pose an 'unacceptable risk' to US national security. The rule, announced on 23 March, allows only devices with conditional DoD or DHS approval, effectively blocking most future consumer models because many are made abroad. The agency cited incidents such as the Volt, Flax and Salt Typhoon attacks, while industry experts caution that governance, patching and lifecycle management — not just country of origin — drive much of the risk.