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(Bloomberg) -- The cybersecurity company SonicWall Inc. said it was the victim of a coordinated attack on its internal systems by âhighly sophisticatedâ hackers.The Silicon Valley-based company said it is investigating a compromise in its Secure Mobile Access 100 series, which âsimplifies end-to-end secure remote access to corporate resources,â according to the company website.SonicWall had previously said its NetExtender VPN client version 10x may also have been compromised, but the company ruled that out in an updated statement Saturday. It also said SonicWall firewalls, SMA 1000 series and SonicWave access points arenât affected.The company is still investigating whether attackers exploited a so-called âzero dayâ -- a newly discovered software flaw -- in the SMA 100 series product.Shevaun Betzler, a company spokesperson, declined to provide additional information.It wasnât clear if the SonicWall breach was related to the recent cyber-attack against U.S. government agencies and companies -- including cybersecurity firms -- by suspected Russian hackers, which authorities have described as sophisticated.The initial discovery of that attack in December determined that the hackers had breached widely used software by Texas-based SolarWinds Corp.As many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers received the malicious code in updates of the companyâs Orion software, though itâs believed that hackers initiated further attacks on far fewer entities.However, the hackers used other methods to infiltrate computer networks, some of which have recently been disclosed. For instance, the cybersecurity company Malwarebytes Inc. said on Jan. 19 that it had been targeted by the suspected Russian hackers who abused âapplications with privileged access to Microsoft Office 365 and Azure environments.â(Updated with new details from the company beginning in second paragraph.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.Âİ2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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