Akira ransomware affiliates continue breaching organizations via SonicWall firewalls

Over a year after SonicWall patched CVE-2024-40766, a critical flaw in its next-gen firewalls, ransomware attackers are still gaining a foothold in organizations by exploiting it. Like last September and earlier this year, the attackers are affiliates of the Akira ransomware-as-a-service outfit. The July 2025 surge in attacks was, according to SonicWall, facilitated by the fact that organizations has migrated from Gen 6 to Gen 7 firewalls but did not reset local user passwords (as … More →

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