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SonicWall Says Internal Systems Targeted by Hackers Exploiting Zero-Day Flaws

[UPDATE] Cybersecurity firm SonicWall said late on Friday that some of its internal systems were targeted by “highly sophisticated threat actors” exploiting what appear to be zero-day vulnerabilities affecting some of the company’s products.

[UPDATE] Cybersecurity firm SonicWall said late on Friday that some of its internal systems were targeted by “highly sophisticated threat actors” exploiting what appear to be zero-day vulnerabilities affecting some of the company’s products.

SonicWall provides network, access, email, cloud, and endpoint security solutions. The company said the attackers may have exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in some of its secure remote access products, namely its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) client version 10.x running on SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410 physical appliances and the SMA 500v virtual appliance.

The company previously said that NetExtender VPN client version 10.x, which is used to connect to SMA 100 series appliances and SonicWall firewalls was impacted, but after futher analysis, the company sad this is NOT the case.

The comany also clarified late Saturday that SMA 1000 Series appliances, SonicWave Access Points, and SonicWall Firewalls are not affected.

The SMA 100 Series product remains under investigation, SonicWall said.

SonicWall hack exploited zero-days in SMA appliances

SonicWall has issued an alert with recommendations on what users of the impacted products should do to prevent potential attacks until patches are made available.

The company described the incident as a “coordinated attack.”

Before the news broke, SecurityWeek received an anonymous email claiming that SonicWall was hit by ransomware and that hackers managed to steal “all customer data.”

A second anonymous email to SecurityWeek said all internal systems went down on Tuesday at SonicWall and that the attackers left a message on Wednesday asking to be contacted by the company’s CEO. The same individual also claimed all source code was stolen from SonicWall’s GitLab repository as a result of the breach.

A screenshot described as proof that the hackers had full access to all internal systems at SonicWall only showed the results of a search conducted using the Shodan search engine.

SonicWall made no mention of ransomware or if any data may have been compromised, and SecurityWeek has not been able to independently confirm the claims — they could be false claims that may have nothing to do with the actual breach suffered by SonicWall.

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Unfortunately, the company has not provided any visibility into any actions taken by the attackers beyond exploiting zero-days, leaving customers, partners and other wondering.

SecurityWeek has reached out to SonicWall for additional information.

*Upated 1/24/21 8:52AM ET

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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

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