Ransomware Infections Reported Worldwide

Yes it was both so I'm informed by IT folk I know! sadly NHS IT depts are varied and in gov depts at times are slow and reactive over pro-active, so laxes occur. Currently nationally via the closed internal network we have in N3 alot is closed off and locally some NHS trusts have blocked outside 3rd party email accounts from being accessed as it may have been those (gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc) that this came from and not our nhs.uk or nhs.net gov accounts.

Issue in part is NHS runs alot of old software thats from 90s that new OS or browsers dont work with, so updating can be slow, we do need to tell the 3rd party companys to update and force them to update but many managers in NHS do not have stones to do so sadly.

We were ok in this but IT did do a full sweep of all 3K+ PCs on mostly Win7 to double check the patch, we are in process of moving to Win10

 

Microsoft knew and issues a patch about a month beore these infections, so it was lazy IT depts that did not heed the alert that did go out in our gov dept. The issue with gov depts Wile, is that they are on WSUS enviroment so patches are not auto installed, but tested to see if they will cripple a large network or 3rd party critial software, so can be slow in the Windows version being updated. Looks like this one was one that got away!