SonicWall Confirms Patched Vulnerability Behind Recent VPN Attacks, Not a Zero-Day The Hacker [email protected] (The Hacker News)

SonicWall has revealed that the recent spike in activity targeting its Gen 7 and newer firewalls with SSL VPN enabled is related to an older, now-patched bug and password reuse.
“We now have high confidence that the recent SSL VPN activity is not connected to a zero-day vulnerability,” the company said. “Instead, there is a significant correlation with threat activity related to CVE-2024-40766.” SonicWall has revealed that the recent spike in activity targeting its Gen 7 and newer firewalls with SSL VPN enabled is related to an older, now-patched bug and password reuse.
“We now have high confidence that the recent SSL VPN activity is not connected to a zero-day vulnerability,” the company said. “Instead, there is a significant correlation with threat activity related to CVE-2024-40766.” 

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