[softengine]

Well, that is kind of right. It is a failure to patch. This is a vulnerability in SMB - server message block. It is explained in more detail in MS17-010.

Shadow Brokers released the NSA tools almost a month ago. So, affected businesses had plenty of time to patch. They chose not to, for whatever reason. As for AV 'blocking' the ransomware, I would not rely on that. Generally speaking, in terms of new malware, AV does NOT catch the dropper. And is often behind in catching the payload as well. I'm not saying don't have AV - definitely DO. But thinking that because you have it, you are good to go is a big mistake.

[FreedomPoster]

This sort of thing is why I just bought a Raspberry Pi this week. I’ll be doing all my finance stuff, and nothing else, on it. $100 for the Pi kit plus a Logitech keyboard and mouse, and a free surplus Dell monitor my son scarfed up for me, and I’m good to go. Running Raspian.