Study Warns Home Routers Carry 93% of Europe’s Traffic Yet Escape Security Scrutiny
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Updated · the-european.eu · Jun 25
Study Warns Home Routers Carry 93% of Europe’s Traffic Yet Escape Security Scrutiny
3 articles · Updated · the-european.eu · Jun 25
Summary
93% of European internet traffic passes through home routers, yet a new study says the devices remain a major security blind spot in the EU’s digital sovereignty debate.
More than half of Europe’s routers and repeaters come from outside the EU, including Chinese vendors with about 37% of the market, giving suppliers theoretical reach into roughly 95 million households.
A compromised router can let attackers inspect or redirect traffic, steal credentials, access connected devices and fold hijacked hardware into botnets used for DDoS attacks and malware distribution.
SAFENet, the Innovate Europe Foundation and iconomy say Europe already vets high-risk suppliers in sectors such as 5G but has not applied similar supply-chain security rules to routers.
The report urges four steps—origin and jurisdiction labelling, procurement changes, stronger supply-chain governance and support for European manufacturing—to close what it calls a neglected infrastructure gap.