SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability

SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability

SonicWall insists a spree of ransomware attacks hitting its Gen 7 firewalls is not linked to a zero-day vulnerability, but rather a critical defect the company previously disclosed and patched last summer in its network security operating system.  The vendor disputed initial assessments from outside researchers suggesting the speed and scale of the attacks pointed to a potential zero-day vulnerability affecting the secure sockets layer (SSL) VPN…