Claroty, an IoT and industrial cybersecurity firm, discovered critical vulnerabilities in Western Digital (WD) and Synology network-attached storage (NAS) products that could have exposed millions of users’ files.
At the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto hacker competition in December 2022, where participants won a combined total of almost USD 1 million for breaking into smartphones, printers, routers, NAS devices, and smart speakers, the vulnerabilities and their exploitation were demonstrated.
To alert customers to the vulnerabilities, both vendors have released advisories and patches, sometimes automatically. In December, January, and May, WD published three advisories and Synology published one.
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