Increase to favorites Challenging to clear away, threat vector opaque, attackers unknown… Thriller attackers have contaminated 62,000 world wide network hooked up storage (NAS) units from Taiwan’s QNAB with complex malware that prevents administrators from running firmware updates. Bizarrely, years into the marketing campaign, the exact threat vector has still not been publicly disclosed. The QSnatch malware is capable of a vast range of steps, like stealing login qualifications and process configuration data, meaning patched bins are generally speedily re-compromised, the NCSC warned this 7 days in a joint advisory [pdf] with the US’s CISA, which exposed the scale of the issue. The cyber actors responsible “demonstrate an consciousness of…