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SonicWall Says State Actor Behind September Breach, Limited to Cloud Backups

Mandiant’s investigation found the intrusion confined to a specific cloud environment accessed via an API.

Overview

  • SonicWall says Mandiant found no impact to products, firmware, internal systems, source code, or customer networks.
  • Attackers accessed firewall configuration backup files in MySonicWall that can contain encrypted credentials and tokens.
  • The company updated its assessment from under 5% affected to all devices that used the cloud backup service.
  • SonicWall has applied Mandiant-recommended mitigations, hardened infrastructure, and released analysis and credential-reset tools for customers.
  • The company says the activity is unrelated to Akira ransomware operations or the separate SSLVPN account compromises reported by Huntress.