UK Council Attack Linked to Mass Exploitation of SonicWall Flaw
A critical SonicWall flaw was rapidly weaponized, with a UK Council attack linked to a campaign that exposed credentials and enabled Active Directory theft. On July 17, 2026, the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk announced it had detected a cyberattack affecting council services. Hunt.io has since published a detailed technical analysis linking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2026
On July 17, 2026, the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk announced it had detected a cyberattack affecting council services. Hunt.io has since published a detailed technical analysis linking that incident, with moderate confidence, to a wider mass-exploitation campaign against SonicWall SMA1000 appliances using CVE-2026-15409, a maximum-severity SSRF flaw that received a CVSS score of 10.0.
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