A huge ransomware campaign seems to be underway to attack QNAP devices globally and customers can now locate their files in password-protected 7zip archives. The ransomware is known as Qlocker and on 19 April 2021, it was aimed at attacking QNAP computers. Ever since the help platform of bleeping computers has had enormous development, and the victims' requests have increased in ID-Ransomware.
However, as per the victims in the Qlocker support department of Bleeping Computer, hackers use 7-zip to transfer files to password-protected archives on QNAP computers. During locking of the files, multiple 72 processes are displayed on the QNAP Resource Monitor, which can be executed on the 7zip command line. Once ransomware is completed, files of the QNAP computer will be saved in a password-protected 7-zip file with a.7z extension. Victims must enter the password identified by the perpetrator only to retrieve those archives.
As soon as one has encrypted the QNAP devices, they then have a !!!READ ME.txt ransom note with a special client key to sign on to the Tor ransomware payment platform. All victims are expected to pay Bitcoins of roughly 0.01, which is around $557.74, from the Qlocker restitution notes shown to get a password for their archived data. After payment is made and an invalid Bitcoin Tax ID has been entered, a 7Zip archive password will be displayed on the Tor Payments website. This password is exclusive to the victim that cannot be used on computers of all the other victims.
On April 22, a security investigator, Jack Cable, announced a bug found in the Qlocker Tor platform that allows users to freely retrieve their 7zip passwords. This bug could allow vic ..
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