Per a knowledge base article, Qnap says that unless the Dovecat process encounters a recent firmware (4.4.x), the system could have been compromised by the miner. Some customers report that the bitcoin miner uses all the CPU and memory resources of the device, rendering it almost unusable. The malware campaign launched by unknown threat actors has been surfacing over the last three months. The company elaborates on the findings: QNAP NAS can become infected when they are connected to the Internet with weak user passwords. Threat Actors Install Malware That Illicitly Mines Bitcoin According to the advisory revealed by Bleeping Computer, the malware mines bitcoin ( BTC) on NAS devices without alerting its operators. The malware infects NAS devices connected to the internet by installing a crypto-miner named Dovecat. A Taiwanese hardware company has warned its clients about a targeted crypto mining attack against their storage devices.
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