QNAP NAS device owners are once again under attack by ransomware operators, who are exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability to lock data on vulnerable devices by using the 7-Zip open-source file archiver utility.
According to Lawrence Abrams, the ransomware gang has managed to “earn” $260,000 in five days, as many unfortunate victims decided to pay the ransom of 0.01 Bitcoins (around $550) to receive the password that would unlock their files.
What happened?
On April 16, QNAP has anounced that they have fixed:
CVE-2020-2509, a command injection vulnerability in QTS and QuTS hero, and
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