Windows 7 hardest hit by WannaCry worm

[Becky]

According to the latest findings from two security firms, the majority of victims of the WannaCry attack were Windows 7 users. BBC News reports:

More than 97% of the infections seen by Kaspersky Lab and 66% of those seen by BitSight used the older software.

WannaCry started spreading in mid-May and, so far, has infected more than 200,000 computers around the world.

In the UK, some hospitals had to turn away patients as the worm shut down computer systems.

Many suggested that the reason UK hospitals suffered was because many of them still relied on programmes that required Windows XP - a version of Microsoft's OS that debuted in 2001.

But infections of XP by WannaCry were "insignificant" said Costin Raiu from Kaspersky Lab.

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[Abarbarian]

According to the latest findings from two security firms, the majority of victims of the WannaCry attack were Windows 7 users. BBC News reports:




Read more here.

Security experts also found that the worm spread largely by seeking out vulnerable machines on the net by itself. Before now, many thought it had got started via an email-based phishing campaign.

So it was not an e-mail attachment after all. Looks like crappy software from MS is to blame really, if they spent some of those billions of dollars they have earnt from selling their crappy software on ironing out the bugs in it we would not be in this mess.