Unpatched NAS Devices Used To Mine Bitcoin. In late 2020, QNAP discovered a pair of critical security vulnerabilities that would allow hackers to take remote control over network-attached storage devices (NAS). In this particular instance, the hackers chose not to encrypt files and demand payment or cause other mayhem. Instead, they made slaves of … [Read more...] about Unpatched NAS Devices Used To Mine Bitcoin
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Some NAS Devices Are Being Exploited By Remote Hackers
If you have any network-attached storage (NAS) devices on your home or office network, be advised that they are the new favorite inroad for hackers around the world. According to a report recently published by researchers at 360 Netlab, hacking groups are increasingly exploiting weaknesses in some NAS devices running a variety of QNAP firmware … [Read more...] about Some NAS Devices Are Being Exploited By Remote Hackers
New Ransomware Targets Network Attached Storage Devices
Yet another new ransomware family has been found in the wild, discovered independently by researchers at two separate security firms, Anomail and Intezer. The new strain has been dubbed "QNPCrypt" by Intezer and eCh0raix" by Anomail and is written in the Go programming language. When it encrypts files, it changes the file extension to ".encrypt" … [Read more...] about New Ransomware Targets Network Attached Storage Devices
