If you own a Synology NAS device and haven't updated in a while, you probably should. Attackers are taking advantage of an older vulnerability (that was patched in February 2014) to mine the Dogecoin virtual currency (an offshoot of Bitcoin that originally began as a joke). One German attacker managed to mine over $600,000 of Dogecoin from Synology boxes. It's yet another reason why you shouldn't enable remote administration on your devices.
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