---
id: 3885
title: "Tearing Down (Sonic)Walls: Decrypting SonicOSX Firmware"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/sonicwall-decrypting-sonicosx-firmware"
published_at: "2025-02-24 00:00"
tags: ["reverse-engineering", "firmware", "security-research", "sonicwall", "sonicrack", "firmware-decryption"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3885"
lang: en
---

# Tearing Down (Sonic)Walls: Decrypting SonicOSX Firmware

## Summary

Bishop Fox reverse-engineered SonicWall's SonicOSX firmware encryption, unlocking file-system access for research, and released Sonicrack to extract keys from VMware bundles and decrypt images.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2025-02-24 00:00
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/sonicwall-decrypting-sonicosx-firmware
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3885