QNAP Systems, Inc. ( zh, c=威聯通科技) is a Taiwanese corporation that specializes in

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(NAS) appliances used for file sharing,

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, storage management and surveillance applications. Headquartered in

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, Taiwan, QNAP has offices in 16 countries and employs over 1000 people around the world. QNAP has been a member of the

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''Intelligent Systems Alliance'' since 2011.

Company history

QNAP originally existed as a department within the IEI Integration Corporation, an industrial computing service provider located in Taiwan. In 2004, QNAP Systems Inc. was spun off into a separate company. QNAP Systems Qidu Plant 20141220

Product overview

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QNAP primarily produces Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. The company also produces Network Video Recorders (NVR) and a series of networking equipment. * QTS – an

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for NAS devices * QES (QNAP Enterprise Storage) * QuTS hero – an operating system similar to QTS that implements

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* QuTScloud * QNE * QSS * QuRouter * The QNAP QHora-301W supports high-speed Wi-Fi 6 and 10GbE connections, while also providing an enterprise-grade SD-WAN VPN to allow multi-site VPN deployment via the cloud.

Vulnerabilities and attacks

In 2021, SAM security group reported that it had discovered critical

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in QNAP NAS devices. SAM security group said that these would mean that remote attackers could "execute arbitrary shell commands ... rcreate arbitrary file data on any (non-existing) location ... rexecute arbitrary commands on the remote NAS". The company said that it had informed QNAP of the vulnerabilities in 2020 but that, four months after being informed, QNAP had not addressed these. The article was later updated to clarify that QNAP had resolved the problems for the most recent devices, but not for older systems, and then that QNAP had revised and released

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for older devices. These critical vulnerabilities were reported by

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to be implicated in a massive ransomware attack on QNAP NAS devices in April 2021. This attack, named "Qlocker", compressed all files smaller than 20 MiB into 7z files using

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with a 32 character long password. In order to retrieve the password, users had to access an .onion webpage and pay 0.01 BTC. This caused losses of at least $260,000 for users. In January 2022 some QNAP NAS devices were affected by a

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infection known as DeadBolt. There were further attacks in March and May 2022.

Achievements

2019 *TS-1677X named Best NAS Device of European Hardware Awards 2019 2018 *Received the COMPUTEX Best Choice Award 2018 2017 *TS-451+ named Best NAS Device of European Hardware Awards 2017 2016 *Received the COMPUTEX Best Choice Award 2016 2014 *Received ISO 27001:2013 certification in information security management *Received 2014

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* Featured in

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's 50 Best Tech Products of 2013

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