{"id":18521,"date":"2015-10-19T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18521"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:05:01","slug":"dridex-malware-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18521","title":{"rendered":"Dridex Malware Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

This came in via the newsfeeds<\/a>, and it looks to be quite serious (I\u2019m basing that on the fact I\u2019ve never seen such an alert before).\"Matrix-style<\/p>\n

The Dridex malware is apparently able to harvest bank details from your computer and already UK losses are stated to be around \u00a320 million. Dridex is spread through attachments in emails, but it can only do so if the attachment is opened.<\/p>\n

A typical infected email might come through as an order confirmation (for something you have never ordered) with an invoice attached. Come to think of it, I\u2019ve had quite a few of these in the past \u2013 not necessarily Dridex – but I never open them if I haven\u2019t ordered anything that tallies with the email details.<\/p>\n

Advice is to install good antivirus software and \u2013 if you\u2019re infected \u2013 contact your bank and credit card company immediately. You\u2019re also urged to report the problem to Action Fraud using the details in the link I gave above.<\/p>\n

Apparently, only computers running Windows are at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This came in via the newsfeeds, and it looks to be quite serious (I\u2019m basing that on the fact I\u2019ve never seen such an alert before). The Dridex malware is apparently able to harvest bank details from your computer and already UK losses are stated to be around \u00a320 million. Dridex is spread through attachments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[90,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t