Security News > 2022 > January > Conti, DeadBolt Ransomwares Target Delta, QNAP

Delta Electronics, an electronics company that provides products for Apple, Tesla, HP and Dell, disclosed Friday that "Non-critical systems" were attacked by "Overseas hackers" - an attack that's been attributed to the Conti Group.

Taiwanese storage and networking equipment provider QNAP Systems forced out an update to its customers' network attached storage devices after warning them earlier this week that the DeadBolt ransomware was in offensive mode against them.

Delta officials said in their statement that the company reacted quickly to the attack, which has had "No significant impact on operations." Delta is working with Trend Micro and Microsoft as well as the appropriate authorities to investigate the attack and restore the systems affected, according to reports.

Targeted Assault on QNAP NAS. While Delta grapples with the aftermath of the Conti attack, fellow Taiwanese company QNAP had to do a clean-up of its own after customers this week began reporting on QNAP message boards and Twitter that the DeadBolt ransomware screen was coming up when they logged into their QNAP NAS devices.

QNAP responded to the reports first by asking all of its NAS customers to immediately update their QNAP NAS devices to the latest version of the firmware, version 5.0.0.1891, released on Dec. 23.

"You do realize that for those who have deployed QNAPs in production environments, when you as a vendor force an update that your customer ISN'T EXPECTING, it can cause an outage at potentially bad times," grumbled one user called EvilMastermindG on a Reddit QNAP message board.

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