Incident responders from Mandiant have wrapped up their investigation into the SonicWall cloud backup service hack, and the verdict is in: the culprit is a state-sponsored threat actor (though the specific nation wasn’t disclosed). “[The incident] was isolated to the unauthorized access of cloud backup files from a specific cloud environment using an API call. The incident is unrelated to ongoing global Akira ransomware attacks on firewalls and other edge devices,” SonicWall said on Tuesday. … More →
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