FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware (nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk) 70
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.
Title errors (Score:5, Insightful)
That's one of the worst cases of non editing I've seen in a Slashdot title
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My brain melted a little trying to parse that. Can someone with a weak grasp of English make any sense of it?
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FBI and John from the UK forced Didrex off spreading Malware, Again!
Who is John from The UK? (Score:2)
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So it wasn't me, there is really a missing?
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Title is fine. FBI and a new, so secrete service that cannot be named, joined UK..
samzenpus (Score:3)
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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what did you do to the poor title? (Score:1)
Wow, haven't seen a title butchered like that posted online.....ever. Well done.
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OK, let's work backwards. "Dridex Banking Malware" is pretty clear cut.
There are some forces that are trying to stop it spreading.
Now the FBI is opposed to those forces (presumably it wants the malware to spread) and to further that goal it's entered into an alliance with somebody - possibly a British timber merchant.
Do I have to do all the thinking round here?
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What kind of headline is that? (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...
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Are you suggesting that you were able to eventually parse it and produce something meaningful? If so, would you mind sharing your results?
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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.
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I read the title as "FBI and UK join forces against spread of dridex banking malware."
It wasn't until I read your post that I saw that it was butchered horribly. :)
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Re: What kind of headline is that? (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.
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I love how all of the comments so far are about the god awful editing of the title instead of the actual story itself.
The focus is on what is important to readers.
To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson (Score:5, Funny)
English motherfucker - do you speak it!?!
that title is worse than yoda speaking when on crystal meth...
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I still have this feeling that Yoda's problem with language was created by someone who had to program in RPN for far too long. Sure sound like it it does.
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WTF? (Score:2, Troll)
"FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware"
4 words: Spell grammar check and /. ..
it Use whenever thinking posting about on
moron
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It's called sarcasm, idiot.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Ummm.... (Score:2)
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The "online banking consumers" are now safer as the botnet is now connected to a sinkhole.
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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.
UNSPIN - When you un-spin the typo... (Score:1)
You see there are very important conclusions to draw from the story.
Fuck Microsoft Windows.
Fuck Microsoft formats.
Fuck Microsoft Windows with anything financial.
Fuck ATM's running on Windows XP.
Fuck Windows 10 with intentionally coded and intentionally obfuscated spyware.
Fuck Microsoft.
There ya go. Those would be the first comments without the seemingly innocent stupid typo in the subject. So many "people" thought it was clever to immediately come in and comment on a typo... you can basically see who the
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Dridex Banking Malware .. (Score:3)
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Does this Dridex Banking Malware run on Apple OS X, Android, Linux or Microsoft Windows ..
Dude you lazy. Three seconds on Google:
"Dridex is a strain of banking malware that leverages macros in Microsoft Office to infect systems."
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/... [webopedia.com]
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"The report indicates that Windows users are the primary targets of the attacks. link [thestack.com]
"The NCA assesses there could be thousands of infected computers in the UK, the majority being Windows users." link [nationalcr...ncy.gov.uk]
How do you like that? (Score:1)
A simple text message in the title can cause so many brains to lock up... Is bad editing now malware of sorts?
A vector of infection that should not be there (Score:3)
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
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I wish we could we against forces (Score:1)
use mod points to downvote titles against forces against malware FBI.
This is why we hate you, Slashdot editors (Score:2)
FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware
It's been two days, there have been numerous posts pointing out the error, and you still haven't given a shit and fixed it.
You are simply bad at running a website.