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Checkmate ransomware hits QNAP NAS devices
July 8, 2022, 9:36 a.m. | Zeljka Zorz
Help Net Security www.helpnetsecurity.com
QNAP Systems is warning about Checkmate, a new piece of ransomware targeting users of its network-attached storage (NAS) appliances. “Preliminary investigation indicates that Checkmate attacks via SMB services exposed to the internet, and employs a dictionary attack to break accounts with weak passwords,” the company says. “Once the attacker successfully logs in to a device, they encrypt data in shared folders and leave a ransom note with the file name ‘!CHECKMATE_DECRYPTION_README’ in each folder.” About … More →
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