Security experts have warned of a surge in malicious activity from Akira ransomware actors targeted at victims running SonicWall SSL VPN appliances. The campaign appears to have begun back in late ...
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SonicWall‘s new SSL VPN appliance is intended for businesses with about 500 employees, and includes SSL VPN software that supports two-factor authentication. This announcement lets SonicWall for the ...
Cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest confirmed on May 19, 2026, that organizations running SonicWall Gen6 SSL-VPN appliances that ...
Ongoing Akira ransomware attacks targeting SonicWall SSL VPN devices continue to evolve, with the threat actors found to be successfully logging in despite OTP MFA being enabled on accounts.
The Akira ransomware gang is actively exploiting CVE-2024-40766, a year-old critical-severity access control vulnerability, to gain unauthorized access to SonicWall devices. The hackers are leverging ...