'Mirai-like' botnet observed attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices
www.theregister.com
Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware

Just stumbled across this (overly dramatic?) article and thought I’d just post it here…

It’s more to act as a reminder that if you’ve got a NAS that is serving content to the interwebs, then make sure it’s behind a proxy of some kind to prevent weaknesses (ie in the management Web UI) being exposed.

Obvz, this article is pointing to Zyxel, but it could be your DIY home-built NAS with Cockpit: CVE-2024-2947 - just an example, not bashing that project at all.

I’ve used Squid and HAProxy over the years (mostly on my pfSense box) - but I’d be interested to know if there’s other options that I’ve not heard of

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    As someone who isn’t a fan of e-waste, I really hate these little “appliance” type NASes. Companies abandon them while they’re still perfectly usable and meeting someone’s needs, and tell you oh sorry, I guess you should buy a new one and throw your current one away. (Which, annoyingly, the article also does.)

    • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I agree, though I wouldn’t blame the article. If it is insecure, you shouldn’t be using it unless it is set up to allow you to run a real os on it.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        I mean I’m not blaming anyone other than the manufacturers who make things and then arbitrarily decide to stop supporting them while they’re still perfectly usable, leaving basically no choice other than trashing and buying a new one.

        • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Agreed.

          If the hardware’s standard, then it’s possible for people (us) to keep these things out of the ground / incinerator for a few more years, but if it’s custom / proprietary stuff, then that’s just terrible.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    I had one of those NAS (NSA320). Even when they were new and suppoted they were using some ancient custom version of linux with ancient packages. It would be insane to expose them on the internet.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Depending on the login flow, I have a lot of stuff behind an oauth proxy. So that you have to have a working 2fa account to see the non 2fa system behind.