Long-standing vulnerabilities in popular consumer and home office Wi-Fi routers made by the likes of Cisco, D-Link, Netgear and ZyXel are being routinely exploited by threat actors backed by the Chinese government as a means to compromise the wider telco networks behind them, according to an advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its partners at the FBI and NSA. In the advisory, the authorities explain how China-sponsored actors readily exploit routers and other devices such as network attached storage (NAS) devices to serve as access points that they can use to route command and control…