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Lockergoga took down Hydro–ransomware used in targeted attacks on business
- pavel_lishin 8y agoAw, I read the title as meaning that the creators of the malware decided to retract their attack.
- BonesJustice 8y agoYeah, my pre-coffee brain definitely did not parse that headline correctly. The HN headline is pretty faithful to the original article's, but the article's headline is poorly worded.
- pavel_lishin 8y agotbh, this is one of the reasons I hate anything but the plain ol' dash with spaces around it.
- BonesJustice 8y agoI don't mind a proper em dash (w/ width equal to full height of the font), which is what the original headline had. Somehow it got changed to an en dash in the HN headline, which has only half that width. Unfortunately, there are annoying inconsistencies in how different software selects an 'appropriate' dash, so I agree: better to avoid them.
- topher200 8y agoGreat article with great analysis of the shortcomings of the security community on this one and ways this can be improved moving forward.
- tantalor 8y agoClickbait title; the company switched to "manual production", the ransomware only took down part of their IT.