QNAP NAS is a device developed by QNAP Systems, which is a Taiwanese corporation specializing in developing network attached storage devices such as NAS.
NAS can be directly connected to network users, in most cases a NAS consists of several hard drives organized as a RAID system. This type of device is perfect for businesses that have a high data flow.
Given these features provided by QNAP on their NAS devices, ransomware groups have focused the attention of their attacks on QNAP NAS. The groups that have been prominent with these attacks are QNAPCrypt and DeadBolt.
Ransomware is malware designed to encrypt all data stored on a system, thus blocking access to the files, and charging a high fee for the release of the decryption key.
To access the victim’s system the groups use numerous strategies such as: virus-containing websites, malicious emails, illicit programs, Phishing, brute force attacks, employee grooming, and perhaps most worryingly, using vulnerabilities in the QNAP NAS itself.
The DeadBolt ransomware claims to have found an hour 0 vulnerability, this name is given to vulnerabilities discovered that are unknown by its developers. And from the looks of it, this vulnerability is indeed real.
QNAP itself has published an alert about the attacks made by the group, instructing its users not to connect the NAS directly to the Internet but to a Firewall for the protection of the device.
DeadBolt is selling the information about this vulnerability on the Dark Web for 50 Bitcoins, if this vulnerability becomes known to other groups, ransomware attacks on QNAP NAS may increase sharply.
In case of successful ransomware attacks, all files and backups that are connected to the network will be encrypted, and the group will charge a high fee to decrypt the affected files.
Digital Recovery provides an option to paying the ransom, the recovery of data encrypted by ransomware. Through Digital Recovery’s solutions, files can be recovered and thus the company’s system restored. All this, without any kind of negotiation with the criminals.
Recover QNAP NAS Encrypted by Ransomware
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