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>The worm reused the meterpreter code which didn't target XP at all

Small nitpick- though the worm aspect of WCry does have a lot of issues with targeting WinXP, the meterpreter part of that sentence is a widespread myth that originated from poor wording in a slide. Source, w/ a reply that has a link to correction from the original author: https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/864293475981729793



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