The company confirmed to CyberScoop that an unidentified cybercriminal accessed SonicWall’s customer portal through a series of brute-force attacks.

The company acted on a court order and collaborated with Cloudflare to seize RaccoonO365’s infrastructure, which was used to steal credentials from organizations in 94 countries.

The tech giant doesn’t provide details about the severity of vulnerabilities it discloses, but none of the new defects are under active attack.

The acquisition comes during a flurry of larger cybersecurity firms looking to add AI security to their customer offerings.

OpenAI and Anthropic said they turned over their models to government researchers, who found an array of previously undiscovered vulnerabilities and attack techniques.

Commentary that downplays the compromise’s impact misses the point, the co-founder of Sonatype argues.

A recent wave of attacks targeting SonicWall customers has researchers and authorities on alert. Many victim organizations had misconfigurations in their systems.

Sonu Shankar, President at Phosphorus

The Oregon senator said Microsoft’s default settings for Windows and other products are enabling ransomware attacks, like the one against Ascension hospital system in 2024. 

Disaster was averted after widely used open-source packages were compromised via social engineering.