Ransomware crooks hit Synology NAS devices with brute-force password attacks
Taiwan-headquartered storage vendor Synology is warning users to strengthen the passwords to their network attached storage (NAS) after several devices — capable of storing terabytes of data — were encrypted by ransomware. In 2014, ransomware crooks hit thousands of Synology Diskstation devices by exploiting a flaw in the company's Linux-based DiskStation Manager that users hadn't patched.
Synology is now warning its NAS device users that attackers recently stole device admin credentials using brute-force, or so-called dictionary attacks, where the attacker throws thousands of password combinations at a login interface. But, in late July, there was a spate of reports from Synology users in an online forum that Synology devices were being encrypted with ransomware asking, once again, for 0.06 Bitcoin, now worth $583.
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