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still trying to get out from under a situation where my QNAP has been borked

 

apparently  QNAP NAS'S has been subjected to MALWARE infection

 

https://www.qnap.com/en-us/security-advisory/nas-201902-13

 

I still have access to my shares but I cant access most of my apps nor update or install anything

 

QNAP Tech support responded  and is logged into my machine

 

This happened after I went ahead and installed firmware update  a week ago 

 

don't know if I can recover or if I would even trust this box without a full reinitialize

 

fortunately,  I did a full system backup before the firmware upgrade -  so I have that going for me at least

 

Something is fishy -  QNAP issued 3 firmware updates during March

 

So those running QNAP NAS's   take heed

 

and for you Synology users -    smile, but recheck your security processes !!!

 

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That's not good! I do hope you get a positive outcome but I'd be tempted to wipe the unit and start afresh.

 

I have a Synology unit myself. With my circumstances, I'm able to leave it restricted to my internal LAN. Every time I hear something like this, I'm kinda glad that I do!

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UPDATE:    The QNAP SUPPORT GUY was great and was logged on for almost an Hour Friday Night

 

But he couldn't get it fixed -   He told me that he was going to escalate this and get back to me this week.

 

Wasn't sure that even if were fixed,  I could trust it.

 

so after verifying that I had good backups,   I reinitialized the NAS and reformated all the data disks

 

Loading in the backup files now -   

 

The process wasn't difficult nor did it require a lot of touch time -   but a lot of downtime  ~  8 hours for building the raid and going on 12 hours to load in the data

 

cant help but think that someone hacked the firmware update -  it happened immediately after I installed one

 

The biggest challenge in security now and in the future will be moles infiltrating previously trusted spaces
 
again,  I am not going to install any firmware update that is newer than a month going forward,  My NAS was working fine and the "updates"  didnt add anything of value to warrant the risk.
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