QNAP, a Taiwanese manufacturer of network attached storage (NAS) and professional network video recorder (NVR) solutions, has published an alert warning its customers of ongoing brute-force attacks aimed at QNAP devices.
“Recently QNAP has received multiple user reports of hackers attempting to log in to QNAP devices using brute-force attacks – where hackers would try every possible password combination of a QNAP device user account. If a simple, weak, or predictable password is used (such as "password" or "12345") hackers can easily gain access to the device, breaching security, privacy, and confidentiality,” the company warned.
For this reason, QNAP is urging customers to enhance the security of their devices by using strong passwords, changing the default access port number, and disabling the admin account.