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#1 The Hacker News general July 19, 2026 at 13:18 UTC

SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Threat actor UTA0533 (tracked by Volexity) exploited two SonicWall SMA 1000 series VPN appliance zero-days — CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 — beginning as early as June 22, 2026, weeks before public disclosure, achieving root access and deploying custom malware. The pre-patch exploitation window and targeting of widely-deployed VPN infrastructure makes this critical for organizations running SMA1000 appliances to investigate for compromise indicators immediately.

Relevance score: 88.0/100

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