U.K. Hospitals Hit in Widespread Ransomware Attack
Summary: At least 16 U.K. hospitals diverted emergency patients after their systems were infected with a variant of Wana Decryptor (WannaCry) ransomware, which Spain's CCN-CERT said spreads through the MS17-010 flaw in Windows SMB that Microsoft patched in March. Avast researcher Jakub Kroustek counted more than 36,000 infected Windows computers, with Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan leading new infections, and the same strain also hit Spain's Telefonica.
Bottom line: The flaw was patched in March, yet it still reached tens of thousands of machines and forced hospitals to turn away emergency patients - and Microsoft responded by issuing fixes for unsupported Windows XP, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003, a measure of how much unpatched estate was exposed.
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