News NASty: QNAP Warns Users About 'eCh0raix' Ransomware

[Admin]

QNAP warned its customers in response to Anomali's disclosure of the eCh0raix Ransomware earlier this month.

NASty: QNAP Warns Users About 'eCh0raix' Ransomware : Read more

 

[digitalgriffin]

Lesson: Sensitive data should never be exposed on an outside network unless it is through a secure tunnel or really good security standards.

 

[shroomzofdoom]

Thankfully, I noticed a brute force attempt on port 8080 started a few weeks ago. The attacker was using a different IP address to get around the QNAP IP block list and trying, on average, several times per minute. Changing the default port for this service seems to have helped, the block list was of no use.