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QNAP Alerts of a Vulnerability that Could Lead to Deadbolt Ransomware Attacks

QNAP, a data-storage hardware vendor, has issued a warning to customers to update their devices due to the discovery of a vulnerability that could leave thousands exposed to attacks. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2022-27596, affects QNAP devices running QTS 5.0.1 and QuTS hero h5.0.1 software and has been given a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. Although the vulnerability is not currently being exploited, QNAP customers have been targeted by the Deadbolt ransomware gang for over a year. The bug was reported to QNAP through their Security Bounty Program by a third-party researcher. Censys, a security company, has identified 67,415 hosts running a QNAP-based system, with 98% of these being vulnerable to the attack. The US had the most vulnerable hosts, with over 3,200, followed by Italy, Taiwan, Germany and Japan. The Deadbolt group has infected more than 20,000 devices and collected around $200,000 in ransom payments. QNAP has created a dashboard to track the number of victims worldwide, and the hackers have demanded 5 Bitcoin to reveal details about the zero-day vulnerabilities they used to attack its users, and another 50 Bitcoin to release a master decryption key. Emsisoft has released its own version of a DeadBolt decryptor, which only works with a decryption key supplied by the ransomware operators.

This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:21:02 +0000


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