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The British fintech firm Finastra appears to have been hit by a Windows ransomware attack, with the company saying it had noticed "potential anomalous activity" on its systems on 20 March.

British security expert Kevin Beaumont has thrown in his lot with the company often described as the Typhoid Mary of the Internet — Microsoft — but says he will not be a big cog in the wheel there, just a security threat analyst.

Microsoft has released a patch for a vulnerability in crypt32.dll, a library used for authentication, a flaw it rates important, the second rank on its severity rating list, but which the NSA has seen fit to issue an advisory about, something the agency never does.