QNAP Stopping Maintenance of TS-419P II (yet again)
Monday, September 19. 2022
Back in 2018, Qnap announced to stop supporting my NAS on December 2020. They walked that date back multiple times and at the time of writing, the EOL date is on October 2022. I hope they don't mean it this time, but am afraid they will:
Recent security advisory QSA-22-24 is warning about DeadBolt Ransomware.
The campaign appears to target QNAP NAS devices running Photo Station with internet exposure.
Apparently, if you published your Photo Station photos to public Internet, your NAS-box was at risk of being encrypted and ransom would be required.
This is something similar what happened back in February 2019, see NAS-201902-13 about details of QNAPCrypt / eCh0raix. If you hadn't patched your Qnap and something crawled past the box, it was possible to brute-force their way into it aaaaand encrypt the files aaaand ransom bitcoin to restore the files. See: New eCh0raix Ransomware Brute-Forces QNAP NAS Devices
Apparently running a NAS is becoming more and more demanding. Maybe I have a wrong brand or something?
