A new warning as we head into the weekend, that a “global attack” is now targeting Windows users in multiple countries around the world. The campaign is stupidly simple, but it hammers home the risk for the hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users heading for a world without security updates a year from now.

CISA has mandated Windows PCs be updated by October 7, which is three weeks from now. As ever, the formal mandate applies to federal employees, but many other public and private organizations follow CISA’s mandates, given its remit “to help every organization better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity.”