SonicWall has officially accused state-sponsored threat actors of being responsible for the September security breach that resulted in the unapproved release of firewall configuration backup files.
The company claimed in a statement this week that the malicious activity, which was carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor, was limited to the unapproved access to cloud backup files from a particular cloud environment via an API request. The ongoing worldwide Akira ransomware assaults targeting firewalls and other edge devices are unconnected to the incident.
The announcement was made about a month after the business claimed that all users of the cloud backup service had firewall configuration backup data read by an unauthorized party. It stated in September that less than 5% of its clients’ cloud backup files were accessed by threat actors read more about SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach.
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