SonicWall: Attackers did not exploit zero-day vulnerability to compromise Gen 7 firewalls

Akira ransomware affiliates are not leveraging an unknown, zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall Gen 7 firewalls to breach corporate networks, the security vendor shared today. “Instead, there is a significant correlation with threat activity related to CVE-2024-40766, which was previously disclosed and documented in our public advisory.” What happened? Since July 15, 2025, researchers have observed a notable surge in ransomware activity targeting SonicWall firewalls, specifically via their SSL VPN functionality, and posited that the attackers … More →

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