{"id":7748,"date":"2021-06-30T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:56:39","slug":"hackers-used-zero-day-and-wiped-my-book-live-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/hackers-used-zero-day-and-wiped-my-book-live-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Used Zero-Day And Wiped My Book Live Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After it was revealed last week that My Book Live NAS owners mysteriously made their stored files disappear, a recent finding showed that a zero-day vulnerability allowed a threat actor to reset mass devices that ultimately caused the data loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Western Digital had initially told BleepingComputer that the attacks were carried out via a vulnerability called CVE-2018-18472, which has not been fixed since the device went out of service in 2015, it was discovered that another zero-day vulnerability caused the factory reset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After carefully analyzing the device&#8217;s log, some users found that a script called factoryRestore.sh was running on their devices on June 24, deleting the device&#8217;s files.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-use-zero-day-to-mass-wipe-my-book-live-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent finding showed that a zero-day vulnerability allowed a threat actor to reset mass My Book Live devices that caused the data loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7786,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions\/7786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}