Synology Devices Running DSM 4 Compromised

Twitter user Mike Evangelist (‏@MikeEvangelist) posted the following on August 3rd: 

Lovely. My @Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker. Not what I wanted to do today.

The CryptoLocker deviation attacks Synology NAS devices by scanning the hard drives and encrypting the data. The only way of decrypting it is to pay a ransom of 0.6 Bitcoins (approx. $350) for a decryption key.

This only impacts devices running running DSM 4.3-3810 or earlier and does not impact DSM version 5.

More information is available from Synology here.

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