Synology NAS Remotely Hacked To Mine $620K In DogeCoin

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story imageFrom ThreatPost via Soylent-not-a-food-trademark-infringing-site, a single criminal hacker planted trojans on Synology NAS units around the world and managed to use the little boxes to mine $620,000 worth of "DogeCoin", the cuter version of the BitCoin "virtual currency".

This, much more than the SuperMicro vulnerability, tells me I'm living in strange new times indeed. A home network-storage appliance used over the Internet to create wealth out of nothing but electricity running some decryption code. These are concepts that just didn't even exist a short time ago.

Had the hacker been just a little more conservative in resource utilization, the scheme may have gone undiscovered for much longer. The jig was up only after Synology users complained about performance to tech support! (Clearly, no one, anywhere, ever checks their router and firewall logs for unusual destinations).

I find this interesting as I had just been reading Ars Technica's new writeup of DIY NAS solutions as alternatives to the expensive fixed purpose NAS devices (some interesting alternatives mentioned in the comments there).

Re: Great article (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-23 02:56 (#27Z)

That review had quite an axe to grind against the new FreeNAS interface, among other things. Have you found it annoying or troublesome?

Their descriptions of difficulties in doing relatively simple things (AD/LDAP) had me thinking that the OpenMediaVault, mentioned in the commments, might be a better way to go. Only tradeoff might be going from ZFS to BTRFS.
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