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NAS Boxes “Pwnwed” by Crypto Currency Miner

16
Jun
2014

A hacker managed to leverage vulnerabilities in the DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system powering Synology network access storage boxes and plant a digital currency miner that earned more than $600,000 (443,016 EUR) in crypto currency.The security flaws that allowed the hacker to gain unauthorized administrative privileges on the network access storage (NAS) boxes had been disclosed by security researcher Andrea Fabrizi back in September 2013.NAS are devices generally intended to operate…

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