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A year or so ago, my Synology NAS got hacked by a Bitcoin mining virus. I only discovered it because a tech blogger tweeted about it and I happened to see it. M
by archagon 12y ago
A year or so ago, my Synology NAS got hacked by a Bitcoin mining virus. I only discovered it because a tech blogger tweeted about it and I happened to see it. My Synology was out of date and the virus must have exploited a vulnerability without any action on my part. Without knowing what to look for, the virus was effectively invisible. Given that I'm probably in the top 1% of tech savvy people, imagine how many others must have gotten infected! (I contacted Synology tech support and suggested that they send out an e-mail to their users, but they never responded.)
Unfortunately, last I checked, it's still impossible to have a Synology NAS automatically update itself.
- vomitcuddle 12y agoyou can set it up to send email notifications when an update is available
- m_t 12y agoThat was a kinda "funny" virus. I got it too. How did I find about it? The fans kept spinning. Usually my syno is really quiet, you can only hear the drives. But that mining exploit made the cpu > 90% and the fans had to do their job. So after a quick search, I discovered what it was all about, and some days later Synology released a nice update that got rid of it. You can't auto update, that's true, but you can receive email alert for each new release of the DSM. You can also do that for each package installed. So, all in all, that good for me: I don't want my NAS to auto update when I'm not there, as I also usually wait a week or two before updating.
- CamperBob2 12y agoIt does have an auto-update function of sorts, but the Bitcoin miner virus disabled it.