Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
An authentication bypass vulnerability in Western Digital My Cloud NAS could allow hackers to access the content of the storage Researchers at security firm Securify have discovered an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Western Digital My Cloud platform that could be exploited by attackers to gain admin-level access to the device via an HTTP request. The flaw, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Trustwave disclosed two vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to gain root access to the NAS devices. Researchers at Trustwave disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to delete files stored on devices or to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2018
Security expert found more than 33000 Seagate’s GoFlex Home network-attached storage (NAS) devices vulnerable exposed online. Seagate has patched several vulnerabilities in its Personal Cloud and GoFlex products, but unfortunately, some flaws remain unpatched. In September, researcher Aditya K. Sood discovered vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to launch cross-site scripting (XSS) and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2017
Netgear has published more than 50 security advisories in the past 2 weeks related to the availability of patches for flaws in its products. Netgear has published more than 50 security advisories in the past two weeks related to the availability of patches for vulnerabilities affecting its products, including routers, switches, network-attached storage (NAS) devices, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
Experts from Sophos discovered Mal/Miner-C, a malware designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Malware researchers from security firm Sophos have analyzed a new strain of malware detected as Mal/Miner-C that was designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The experts discovered that the new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2015
A security expert discovered a Remote Code Execution zero-day vulnerability in Seagate Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. A critical zero-day vulnerability affects Network Attached Storage (NAS) device software produced by the Seagate firm. The vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher OJ Reeves on October 7 and reported to Seagate that still hasn’t fixed the zero-day. The Seagate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2014
Security experts at Sans Institute discovered a worm which exploits the popular Shellshock flaw to compromise QNAP systems in the wild. Experts at Sans Institute have discovered a new series of attacks in the wild exploiting the Shellshock attack code to compromise disk storage systems made by the Taiwan-based QNAP firm. The threat actors used […]
