Microsoft just issued an update for Windows XP

commodore256 · May 13, 2017, 6:38pm

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WannaCry Factsheet (continuously updated) and Patches for Legacy Windows Windows

This was a "cyber attack" like driving through a minefield is a "suicide bomb." MS has issued emergency patches for unsupported versions of Windows. Mitigations for WannaCry Apply patches for MS17-010 (ETERNALBLUE and DOUBLEPULSAR) Create a named mutex “MsWinZonesCacheCounterMutexA” (ref:https://twitter.com/gN3mes1s/status/863149075159543808) Filter all SMB (TCP/445), NetBIOS (TCP/139), and RDP (TCP/3389) Get your patch here if you need it. http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598 MS Security Bulletin Details https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx Covers: Windows Server 2003 -> 2008 Windows XP -> Windows 8 Windows POSReady and WES09 If you have been affected As of right now there is no way to decrypt your data and the perpetrators are apparently not able to hand out encryption keys even if you pay the ransom due to them not being able to track 'users' as it were and are unable to link keys to specific infection instances. You will have to restore from backups. Updated Wiki Gist You can keep up with the latest developments covering WanaCrypt0r on this wiki gist now. It's being updated as more developments come in. It's currently still just a fraction of what we expect to see. Well written summary on WannaCrypt0r by Troy Hunt Index of public servers affected by WCRY (as of yet 79 results) https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%E2%80%9CIndex+of%22+%22%2F+.WNCRY%E2%80%9D