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" This is the first major known exploit of a vulnerability to affect Windows XP since the official end of support earlier this month. Recent research from AppSense suggests that as much as 77 per cent of British businesses are running Windows XP in some capacity beyond the end of support deadline. Such organizations could be impacted by further exploits to this vulnerability as malware creators take further advantage of this security hole which will remain open due to the end of patches and security fixes for Windows XP by Microsoft.

By using an unsupported platform, organisations are taking a very real risk in terms of data security as highlighted by this exploit and need to either move off XP or strictly control user rights and application usage. "