QNAP NAS devices infected with QSnatch malware
November 3rd, 2019 by hankshelp
Thousands of QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QSnatch malware
“Hackers have infected thousands of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from Taiwanese vendor QNAP with a new strain of malware named QSnatch
An analysis of the malware’s code revealed the following capabilities:
Modify OS timed jobs and scripts (cronjob, init scripts)
Prevent future firmware updates by overwriting update source URLs
Prevents the native QNAP MalwareRemover App from running
Extracts and steals usernames and passwords for all NAS users“
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