NHS hospitals in England hit by widespread ransomware attack

I was listening to UK Radio 4 this morning and some IT guy reckoned that 90% of NHS users are running Win XP, if that's true it's going to cost them a arm and a leg to bring the system up to scratch.
 
We have been working since around 5am to deploy mitigation measures. The Ransomware was sinkholed at around 13:00 CAT (maybe earlier) yet we are still required to continue with activities.
 
LCBXX said:
We have been working since around 5am to deploy mitigation measures. The Ransomware was sinkholed at around 13:00 CAT (maybe earlier) yet we are still required to continue with activities.
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Just got back from a client now using SMBv1 still. Patches going and 2nd level offsite backups in progress. Segmented network. What a mission.
 
Sinbad said:
Not for unsupported operating systems... Like xp...
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MSFT publicly released a patch for XP in March, for everyone.

This is possibly the first time ever that Microsoft has issued a patch for a product decommissioned so long ago. While the company issued an emergency patch for Windows XP in 2014, it came the same week support for that version ended, making the exception seem less unusual. This time around, the emergency patches are being applied to OS versions that Microsoft stopped supporting as many as three years ago.
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https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/wcry-is-so-mean-microsoft-issues-patch-for-3-unsupported-windows-versions/
 
Arthur said:
MSFT publicly released a patch for XP in March, for everyone.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/wcry-is-so-mean-microsoft-issues-patch-for-3-unsupported-windows-versions/
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Only after the outbreak on May 13th. This is a shame that they didn't release it before, considering a leaked hacking tools from NSA. A code for hacking SMB was included in these tools, so with a little immagination they could predict what would happen.
 
biometrics said:
I have one isolated XP PC still running. Checked Windows update and it wasn't there. So it required a manual install. A rather big Microsoft fail. Should have been automated.
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Hardly Microsoft's fault. XP support was ended over 3 years ago. Their update infrastructure has probably long been removed for XP. At least they released a patch for it.
 
gregmcc said:
Hardly Microsoft's fault. XP support was ended over 3 years ago. [-]Their update infrastructure has probably long been removed for XP[/-]. At least they released a patch for it.
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A patch for XP was released in March, it was available only for corporates who pay Microsoft for supporting XP. Don't try to defent if you don't know the all story.
 
Do you have proof of this? If so I stand corrected then. Was it also available via automatic updates for those clients?
 
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