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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

    1. Re:Title errors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware

      My brain melted a little trying to parse that. Can someone with a weak grasp of English make any sense of it?

    2. Re:Title errors by zAPPzAPP · · Score: 3, Funny

      FBI and John from the UK forced Didrex off spreading Malware, Again!

  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 Roger+Wilcox · · Score: 2

      As near as I can tell: (FBI) and (Join UK) Against (Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware) ...not that it makes much sense even so.

    2. Re: What kind of headline is that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Right. The real story is Word macros are still an attack vector. That's fucking sad. It's been 20+ years and they just remove the broke feature that nobody uses except to infect others. At least with Flash they have to come up with a new exploit every now and then. With Word macros, there is no exploit, you can just infect all you want.

  3. To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    English motherfucker - do you speak it!?!
    that title is worse than yoda speaking when on crystal meth...

    1. Re:To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson by Anomalyst · · Score: 2

      meessa thinkin yousa may be correct

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  4. Who is John from The UK? by TuckerBag · · Score: 2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... John Wetton from the band called "UK". Sorry, just couldn't resist.

  5. samzenpus by frovingslosh · · Score: 2

    As soon as I saw the title I thought to myself "Bet it was posted by samzenpus". Sure enough ......

    Not your first one this month either.

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    I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
  6. Re:Ummm.... by Anomalyst · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure I understand. Is this a bitcoin article, an Uber article, a VW article, or a drone article?

    Never under estimate the value of an Uber driver in a rabbit diesel with a trunk full of bitcoins surveiled by a drone.

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    There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
  7. Dridex Banking Malware .. by nickweller · · Score: 2

    Does this Dridex Banking Malware run on Apple OS X, Android, Linux or Microsoft Windows ..

  8. A vector of infection that should not be there by dbIII · · Score: 2

    Normally it's a vector of infection that should not be there.
    Most of the time when somebody sends you a word doc or an excel spreadsheet it is only for you to read and not to change. We've had the PDF format freely available for far longer than this website has existed yet we still get that shit - word docs for birthday invites - do they want us to change the date :) Invoices as spreadsheets - can we fill in how much we want to pay?