a high-risk warning from the UK’s NHS England Digital.
Huh, I didn't think the NHS would be doing security research like this
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I don't think they found it, they are just flagging it as critical internally.
Must be, because the call for this update went out a week ago. Are they late or is the reporter being responsible? I know which my money's on...
This would have been something I would have to had to look into back when I was on windows.
I got hit by a similar exploit for WinRAR, it was a very sneaky XMR miner that took over mg whole system and would push the CPU to the max or mine XMR.
I was only able to get rid of it via safe made and luck (I was able to find a removal tool via a non-english forum, I suspect they dlacoid targeting US and EU).