The manufacturer of Wi-Fi routers TP-Link was suspected of “draining” traffic to third-party services

Good for antivirus serversAs it became known, TP-Link routers send all information about network traffic to the servers of Avira, which develops antivirus products, without the user's consent. Discuss Wi-Fi router manufacturer TP-Link was suspected of leaking traffic to third-party services

The owner of the TP-Link Archer AX3000 router drew attention to this, noting that his device made about 80 thousand requests to Avira servers in 24 hours. The situation is that the manufacturer of routers TP-Link has been working with Avira for several years to ensure the security of their devices. cyber threats. At the same time, the Avira HomeShield function was disabled on the user's router, which did not prevent the device from sending all information about private traffic to the Avira servers.

Source: Gazeta.ru


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