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There's no evidence that this attack targeted the NHS or other health systems, right? Just spreading randomly by email, highest infection probabilities certain older Microsoft OSs?


This definitely wasn't targeted. Check here - https://intel.malwaretech.com/botnet/wcrypt/?t=24h&bid=all


Yeah it looks like "large public institutions" were affected simply because that's where you'll find more unpatched (or unpatchable, in the case of XP) machines.




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