SonicWall customers urged to patch up immediately amid new ransomware attacks

SonicWall has alerted a section of its users to an “imminent” ransomware campaign targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products running end-of-life, unpatched firmware

The security vendor believes the malicious campaign exploits a known vulnerability that has already been patched in newer versions of the firmware for the affected devices.

“Organizations that fail to take appropriate actions to mitigate these vulnerabilities on their SRA and SMA 100 series products are at imminent risk of a targeted ransomware attack,” SonicWall said in itsnotice.

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Playing with fire

The notice, which focuses more on remediation steps rather than sharing information about the threat itself, does acknowledge that the advisory is the result of collaboration between SonicWall and trusted third parties, particularly Mandiant.

Reporting on the notice, ZDNet shares that while SonicWall did not identify the ransomware group that was targeting its customers, earlier this year, cybersecurity researchers ran into a new variant of the FiveHands ransomware that was attacking SonicWall appliances.

In any case, the company is urging users still running devices with the unmaintained firmware to quickly update to the recent version.

It’s even coming to the rescue of customers with end-of-life devices that cannot upgrade to the newer patched firmware, by providing a complimentary virtual SMA 500v instance until October 31, 2021, giving them ample time to switch to a more recent product.

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