Microsoft have released a patch for Windows XP.
I'm not the type for conspiracy theories, but there is something fishy about that patch.
Take a look at the XP SP3 update file.
As necessary, it is digitally signed by Microsoft.
Take a look at the timestamp in the signature.
It's February 11th, 2017.
The embedded one is 17th, the 2003 server one is 12th, Win 8th one is 13th.
That's a full month before the official update was released, on March 17th.
For comparison, Win 10 one is dated March 6th.
This is suspicious.
Doesn't really prove anything - they might have known the severity of the vulnerability and prepared for it in advance.
But it's still suspicious - why prepare such updates beforehand, but not release them?
It's as if they expected something big to happen to then produce a quick fix.