996 ZyXEL Switches Hacked by a Chinese Collector Group: 564 Still Had Default Passwords
A Chinese-linked hacking group has compromised almost 1,000 ZyXEL office switches across 48 countries. The number that should worry African IT teams is 564. That is how many of the breached devices were still running factory default credentials. On Monday, threat intelligence firm GreyNoise published observations of a Chinese-speaking, state-affiliated actor exploiting CVE-2026-7273, a stack-based…