Akira Still Using SonicWall Devices for Attacks

Although SonicWall has provided a patch for a vulnerability for its VPN affecting its Gen5, Gen6, and Gen7 firewall appliances (which allowed threat actors unauthorized access to SonicWall appliances), Rapid7 has reported that “an Akira ransomware campaign [recently] kicked off targeting SonicWall devices.” SonicWall has provided an advisory to customers related to the campaign, which was originally thought to be a new one, but has been confirmed to be related to the original vulnerability…
By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider