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Attacks Erase Western Digital Network-Attached Storage Drives

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.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/attacks-erase-western-digital-network-attached-storage-drives/d/d-id/1341419

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