End-of-Life Router Lists

(Attn: TPU Staff - this thread might be a good candidate for a sticky)


A recent People’s Republic of China state sponsored Botnet attack on very popular SOHO routers is a reminder to all that our routers reach "End-of-Life" too. This is when the manufactures no longer provide technical support for these devices, and more importantly, they no longer provide critical security firmware patches for any newly discovered security vulnerabilities. This puts all users on these networks at risk of being compromised.


Note the advisory from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the Communications Security Establishment’s Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ), and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) reported (my bold underline added),

The vast majority of routers that comprised the KV Botnet were Cisco and NetGear routers that were vulnerable because they had reached “end of life” status; that is, they were no longer supported through their manufacturer’s security patches or other software updates.

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Below is a list "End-of-List" (EoL) products by popular router manufactures. I recommend everyone periodically check these lists to make sure your routers are not listed and are still being supported. If your router is listed, NOW is the time to replace it (assuming it is not too late).

Asus
Cisco
D-Link
Linksys
Netgear
Synology
TP-Link


(I know these are just some of the router manufacturers world wide. Not all maintain such lists. If you find a link to a EoL list by a manufacturer not listed, please PM me with the link and I will add it. Thanks.)