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 QNAP and IEI Integration Corporation headquarters inXizhi District,New Taipei City | |
Native name | 威聯通科技股份有限公司 |
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Network-attached storage Network video recorder Networking hardware |
| Founded | April 1, 2004; 21 years ago (April 1, 2004) (as a separate company) |
| Founder | Teddy Kuo Meiji Chang |
| Headquarters | , Taiwan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Chairman: Teddy Kuo General Manager: Meiji Chang |
Number of employees | 1000+ |
| Subsidiaries | QNAP, Inc. |
| Website | www |
QNAP Systems, Inc. (Chinese:威聯通科技) is a Taiwanese corporation that specializes innetwork-attached storage (NAS)appliances used for file sharing,virtualization, storage management and surveillance applications. Headquartered inXizhi District,New Taipei City, Taiwan, QNAP has offices in 16 countries and employs over 1000 people around the world.
QNAP became a member of theIntelIntelligent Systems Alliance in 2011.[1]
QNAP, which stands for Quality Network Appliance Provider, originally existed as a department within the IEI Integration Corporation,[2] an industrial computing service provider located in Taiwan.[3] In 2004, QNAP Systems Inc. was spun off into a separate company.[4][5][better source needed]
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QNAP primarily producesNetwork-Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. The company also producesNetwork Video Recorders (NVR) and a series of networking equipment.
In 2021, SAM security group reported that it had discovered criticalvulnerabilities in QNAP NAS devices.[9] SAM security group said that these would mean that remote attackers could "execute arbitrary shell commands ... [or] create arbitrary file data on any (non-existing) location ... [or] execute arbitrary commands on the remote NAS".[9] The company said that it had informed QNAP of the vulnerabilities in 2020 but that, four months after being informed, QNAP had not addressed them.[9] 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 releasedfirmware for older devices.[9]
These critical vulnerabilities were reported byBleeping Computer to be implicated in a massive ransomware attack on QNAP NAS devices in April 2021.[10] This attack, named "Qlocker", compressed all files smaller than 20 MiB into7z files using7-Zip with a 32 character long password.[10] In order to retrieve the password, users had to access an.onion webpage and pay 0.01BTC.[10] This cost users at leastUS$260,000.[11]
In January 2022 some QNAP NAS devices were affected by aransomware infection known as DeadBolt.[12] There were further attacks in March and May 2022.[12]
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