SonicWall Blames State Actor for Customer Data Breach

SonicWall reported that a state-sponsored threat actor conducted a brute-force attack on its MySonicWall cloud backup service, compromising firewall configuration files of all affected customers. An investigation by Mandiant confirmed the involvement of a state actor, although specific details about the nation or group were not disclosed. SonicWall has initiated security reforms in response to the incident.