{"id":217983,"date":"2025-07-16T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/police-disrupt-diskstation-ransomware-gang-attacking-nas-devices"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:16:17","slug":"police-disrupt-diskstation-ransomware-gang-attacking-nas-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/police-disrupt-diskstation-ransomware-gang-attacking-nas-devices","title":{"rendered":"Police disrupt \u201cDiskstation\u201d ransomware gang attacking NAS devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/police-disrupt-diskstation-ransomware-gang-attacking-nas-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as \u2018Diskstation,\u2019 which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The law enforcement operation codenamed \u2018Operation Elicius\u2019 was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Diskstation is a ransomware operation that targets Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, which are commonly used by companies for centralized file storage and sharing, data backup and recovery, and general content hosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as \u2018Diskstation,\u2019 which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation codenamed \u2018Operation Elicius\u2019 was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania. Diskstation is a ransomware operation that targets Synology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,1625,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}