Is your Western Digital My Cloud gadget at the moment offline? Don’t fear—the corporate isn’t struggling one other service outage. Rather, it’s a brand new measure to forestall exploits of safety vulnerabilities. If you haven’t up to date your gadget’s firmware not too long ago, it’s being barred from entry to My Cloud.

As noticed by Bleeping Computer, Western Digital started blocking net entry on June 15 if the NAS unit had not but up to date to firmware model 5.26.202 (My Cloud) or 9.4.1-101 (My Cloud Home, SanDisk ibi). The software program updates had been launched on May 15, and embrace fixes for a number of safety flaws. One is rated as important severity. The coverage change was introduced in a security bulletin earlier this week. 

While dramatic, Western Digital’s actions appear to be associated to its service woes back in April, when a hack led the corporate to take down its servers for over per week to finish remediation. The important severity subject patched in its May 15 firmware permits unauthenticated code to be executed remotely on a My Cloud gadget—which might expose customers to threats like ransomware assaults.

Users can nonetheless entry information on offline My Cloud units domestically. Access and administration of recordsdata by way of the net turns into out there once more after the outdated gadget completes a firmware replace. Affected units embrace:

• My Cloud PR2100 – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud PR4100 – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud EX4100 – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud EX2 Ultra – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud Mirror G2 – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud DL2100 – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud DL4100 – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud EX2100 – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud – requires 5.26.202 or later
• WD Cloud – requires 5.26.202 or later
• My Cloud Home – requires 9.4.1-101 or later
• My Cloud Home Duo – requires 9.4.1-101 or later
• SanDisk ibi – requires 9.4.1-101 or later

Western Digital’s safety bulletins for My Cloud, My Cloud Home, and SanDisk ibi units element the way to replace your gadget’s firmware. 

This coverage announcement carefully follows recent reports about Western Digital hard drive warnings, which, not like the firmware updates talked about above, don’t deal with any safety points. Even with out issues, some WD laborious disk drives are flashing alerts after three years—and it’s inflicting the drives to cease working in Synology NAS units. Synology is at the moment recommending that customers flip off the warnings to revive performance.