
GBHackers weekly bulletin lists 50 stories from November 2–6
The roundup's lead blurbs cite bank theft, exploited WordPress and Zyxel flaws, and an Android TV botnet takedown.
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The roundup's lead blurbs cite bank theft, exploited WordPress and Zyxel flaws, and an Android TV botnet takedown.

Twenty OpenSSH attempts came from 13 IPs, and a Zyxel flaw was used on nearly 1,000 switches.

Attackers compromised nearly 1,000 Zyxel GS1900 switches via pre-authentication RCE before Zyxel patched the flaw.

Patch for CVE-2026-7273 left switches vulnerable to new CVE-2026-107441 remote root command execution.

Zyxel security advisory AV26-1114 reports out-of-bounds write in GS1900 series switches and buffer overflow in APs FWA7 Security Routers; users should apply updates.

Weekly roundup leads with a Gyazo breach of 23.6 million users and the TASK#STOMP document-stealing backdoor.

A Chinese-linked actor exploited WordPress and Zyxel flaws, stealing government records from dozens of organizations.

Chinese hackers exploited ZyXEL CVE-2026-7273 on GS1900 switches in 48 countries; CISA added it to KEV.

Chinese-speaking actor exploited WordPress flaws affecting 49 orgs, stealing 18,566 government records including plaintext passwords.

CISA added exploited Zyxel GS1900 switch flaw CVE-2026-7273 to the KEV catalog, with a September 24 fix deadline.

CISA added actively exploited Zyxel GS1900 flaw CVE-2026-7273 to KEV, ordering federal agencies to patch by Thursday after ~1,000 switches were compromised.

CISA added exploited Zyxel GS1900 buffer overflow CVE-2026-7273 to KEV, warning of unauthenticated command execution.

Canada's Cyber Centre says Zyxel GS1900 buffer overflow CVE-2026-7273 is now in CISA's KEV catalog.
CISA added actively exploited Zyxel GS1900 stack buffer overflow CVE-2026-7273 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

GreyNoise tracks 'Red Heron' actor exploiting multiple vulnerabilities including novel ZyXEL CVE-2026-7273 and stealing 18,000+ government records.

Unit 42 details an updated Gafgyt botnet variant exploiting Zyxel, Huawei, and Realtek router vulnerabilities to recruit devices for DoS attacks on gaming servers.

Unit 42 analyzed the Mirai IZ1H9 botnet variant exploiting Tenda, LB-Link, DCN and Zyxel flaws to build DDoS-capable IoT botnets.
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