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FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware (nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk)

Posted by samzenpus on from the working-together dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has issued a warning to UK online banking consumers to guard against the possibility of having been infected by the Dridex malware, which spreads via macros in infected Microsoft documents and is currently estimated to have cost £20mn to UK consumers. The NCA says that it is working with the FBI and several European authorities in a concerted campaign to take down the botnet behind the current crop of infections. Dridex is a derivative of the Cridex strain of banking malware, which itself stole many techniques from the GameOver Zeus malware package.

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  1. Title errors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's one of the worst cases of non editing I've seen in a Slashdot title

  2. What kind of headline is that? by Roger+Wilcox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is someone trying to be cute with that absurdly convoluted headline?

    It is impossible to parse at first glance and difficult after several times.

    I have come to expect better from the editors here...

    1. Re:What kind of headline is that? by Kneo24 · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I love how all of the comments so far are about the god awful editing of the title instead of the actual story itself.