QNAP NAS Attacked By Deadbolt AGAIN – What, When, How and Why?

New Reports of Deadbolt Ransomware Attacks on QNAP NAS via Photo Station - https://nascompares.com/news/qnap-nas...

It would appear that the Deadbolt ransomware attack that has been a persistent pain for QNAP (and other NAS brands) in 2022 continues to remain current, with new reports emerging of further attacks of NAS systems in September 2022. The vulnerability that has been reported to be being exploited is in the QNAP Photo Station application and although a day one patch for the application for all current use QTS software systems has been issued, it has still resulted in users being hit in this new wave of attacked by the deadbolt ransomware group. Although the scale of this latest attack does not match that of previous attacks by the group, it is worth highlighting that the encryption of how this ransomware deploys and presentation to the user upon execution have changed a little, so even if you are not affected, it might still be worth getting clued up on this. In this article, I will cover everything that is known so far about this Photo Station vulnerability that was exploited, why deadbolt is still a thing, how it attacks, what you can do to avoid it and what can you do if you have been hit.

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Video Chapters
00:00 - GET YOUR BACKUPS IN ORDER
00:58 - Introduction to Deadbolt and What Happened
01:52 - Deadbolt and QNAP Photo Station
02:40 - What Deadbolt Ransomware does to your NAS and Data
03:40 - What Has Changed in Deadbolt Ransomware over time
04:18 - QNAP's Response to Deadbolt Ransomware
04:53 - How Does Deadbolt RansomwareStill Keep Getting Through?
05:55 - My Painful Analogy
07:00 - The REAL Problem that keeps allowing Ransomware to happen
07:20 - What Ransomware Needs to Infiltrate Your System
07:45 - Putting Ransomware Attack Frequency into Context
09:00 - The Nature of Updates and Vulnerabilities
10:00 - Why do people not install updates?
10:35 - History of QNAP and Deadbolt
11:05 - Why Have there been repeated Deadbolt Ransomware Attacks to QNAP NAS hardware in 2022?
12:10 - Why are we seeing an increase in NAS Ransomware Attacks in 2022?
13:34 - Disclaimer - Me trying to remain as neutral or impartial as I can be
13:52 - What is QNAP's fault and where they went wrong?
14:15 - App security and testing
15:58 - Forced Updates?
19:18 - Providing Tools and Services without consequence
20:47 - What is No QNAP's fault?
20:55 - Backups are Your responsibility
22:50 - Update Limits and safeguards on Internet Access
24:05 - It is the Age of the internet!
25:17 - Recommended Settings and Services you NEED to install, enable or disable

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