Not old news. Brand new vulnerability, the third one in this series now.

Its the kind of vulnerability that would normal not get any attention. Its not a remote code vulnerability and has nothing to do with the recent remote code vulnerability other than the fact that it happens to be in the same part of the OS.

Or maybe it's getting attention after thousands of successful ransomware attacks on Windows systems recently?

No, similar bugs are found and fixed all the time and no one cares. Also no plausible connections to the ransomware attacks. Which usually need a remote vuln. or targeted attack especially against people.

Regardless, it's not old news.