Synology News Synology® Urges All Users to Take Immediate Action to Protect Data from Ransomware Attack

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Synology News Synology® Urges All Users to Take Immediate Action to Protect Data from Ransomware Attack

TAIPEI, Taiwan—July 23, 2019—Synology® recently found that several users were under a ransomware attack, where admins' credentials were stolen by brute-force login attacks, and their data was encrypted as a result. We investigated and found that the causes of these attacks were due to dictionary attacks instead of specific system vulnerabilities. This large-scale attack was targeted at various NAS models from different vendors; therefore we strongly recommend users check network and account settings to protect data from ransomware.

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