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10,000 Records Encrypted By Synolocker at Chinese University’s Faculty of Medicine

12

Aug

2014

Synolocker crypto-malware affecting Synology network access (NAS) devices in particular, has hit the Faculty of Medicine of Chinese University and took hostage no less than 10,000 patient records.It appears that the affected data belongs to the Centre for Liver Health and Institute of Digestive Disease at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin, and […]

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Synology NAS Devices Hit in Ransomware Attack, Firm Advises Upgrade

06

Aug

2014

A network-attached storage (NAS) vendor has confirmed that ransomware is targeting some of its devices and urged users to upgrade. Taiwanese-based Synology issued a statement about the issue after users on an online forum reported that ransomware known as ‘SynoLocker’ was targeting their Diskstation devices. According to users, the attack encrypts files and demands the […]

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Crypto-Malware Synolocker Hits Synology NAS Devices, Here’s How to Defeat It

05

Aug

2014

Over the weekend, reports came in from users informing that their NAS (Network Access Storage) devices from Synology had become the target of cybercriminals, who created crypto-malware intended specifically for this type of storage.Named Synolocker, the malicious file could land on the NAS devices either through brute-forcing the login credentials or by leveraging a vulnerability […]

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