Hackers are backdooring QNAP NAS devices with 3-year old RCE bug

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Hackers are scanning for vulnerable network-attached storage (NAS) devices running multiple QNAP firmware versions, trying to exploit a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability addressed by QNAP in a previous release.

According to a report published today by researchers at Qihoo 360's Netlab Network Security Research Lab, unknown threat actors are currently exploiting a remote command execution vulnerability due to a command injection weakness in QNAP NAS devices' firmware.
 

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on July 21, 2017, QNAP released firmware version 4.3.3 and this version included the fix for this vulnerability.
Running a NAS requires a bit of security awareness. Here's a good basic guide :
 
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