SonicWall
US network security and firewall maker.
On 20 October, SonicWall, a US security company best known for firewalls and SonicOS, appeared in a joint advisory on SafePay ransomware access routes.
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SonicWall is a United States cybersecurity company headquartered in Milpitas, California. It sells network, endpoint and cloud security products, including next-generation firewalls that run its SonicOS operating system. Its wider offering includes managed security services.
A joint government advisory published on 20 October 2026 named one older SonicOS vulnerability among five access flaws associated with SafePay ransomware activity. All five flaws had spent two to three years in CISA's exploited-vulnerability catalogue. The attribution was to SafePay, while SonicWall's role was that of the vendor whose firewall software contained one of the named routes. The advisory showed an old edge-security flaw remaining useful to ransomware operators long after public listing.
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