Zyxel

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Zyxel is a telecommunication company that was founded in 1989 in Taiwan. They are most known to create consumer grade routers but also produce enterprise equipment.

Zyxel

Basic information
Founded	1989
Legal Structure	Private
Industry	Telecommunication
Also known as
Official website	https://www.zyxel.com/

Zyxel Communications Corporation is a subisidiary of Zyxel Group Corporation.

Incidents

Zyxel refuses to release patches for actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities (2024-2025)

Zyxel released a statement announcing they had no plans to release a patch for two actively exploited flaws (zero-day vulnerabilities) in its routers, potentially affecting thousands of customers. The company advised customers to buy new routers despite the fact that the affected routers were still possible to buy online.