Western Digital’s network-attached storage (NAS) drives suffered what appears to be an attack that possibly exploited a 2018 vulnerability. Western Digital suspects a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the drives. The company recommends that business and individual users turn off the drives to protect their data. In 2012, a cyberattack resulted in data being deleted on nearly 35,000 hard drives at Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil-and-gas firm Saudi Aramco, thought to be the work of an Iranian group called the Cutting Sword of Justice.”]

