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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by Scoundreller on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:44PM (#27626936)
Public-facing Synology devices got hit in the past too, but they just used it to mine Litecoin. I think someone calculated it and figured out that it cost something like $400k in electricity to mine $100k of coins on the boxes.

Aha! It was $600k in dogecoin in 2014

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2364120/hacked-synology-nas-...

That’s worth around $125m today (assuming straight hodling).

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by ksec on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:29AM (#27627438)
And of course Qnap in the recent month. It keeps repeating, and keeps happening, and some ( me ) keep ranting about it and no one / company is doing anything much with it.

Majority of people buy NAS only use it to access their Data within their internal network. But somehow they all include Internet / Cloud features as upsell.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by cfn on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:38AM (#27628123)
Can you give a link to what is happening with QNAP? I have one and now I am worried.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by criddell on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:12AM (#27630992)
They had hard coded credentials in a service that lots of people inadvertently exposed to the internet.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qnap-removes-...

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by fistynuts on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:58AM (#27627576)
To be fair to Qnap, they're actively patching these issues as they come up.

Of course the issues shouldn't be there in the first place, but it's not like they're ignoring the problem.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by noja on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:29AM (#27627735)
> To be fair to Qnap, they're actively patching these issues as they come up.

What? They backdoored every device.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by ValentineC on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:24AM (#27627406)
Synology has a large enough following to get its own ransomware attack (in July 2019) too:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/company/news/article/2019July...

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