Global IT outage linked to CrowdStrike causes many Windows PCs crashing around the world
A major IT outage reportedly linked to the U.S. cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has caused widespread disruption for businesses globally. The issue has forced many banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline, and caused numerous Windows computers to crash unexpectedly.
CrowdStrike has acknowledged the situation, stating, “CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor. Symptoms include hosts experiencing a bugcheck\blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor.” The company's engineers are actively working to resolve the problem.
Falcon Sensor, an agent designed by CrowdStrike to block attacks and capture real-time activity to detect threats, is currently identified as the source of the crashes.
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- Crowdstrike Outage: What We Know As Microsoft Accounts Down WorldwideNewsweek
- CrowdStrike code update bricking PCs around the worldThe Register
- Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issueMashable
- CrowdStrike suffers major outage affecting businesses around the worldCNBC
- Huge Windows Blackout Hits Banks, Airports And MoreForbes
- Windows 10 BSOD, stuck at recovery due to CrowdStrike, but there's a fixWindows Latest
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When you're a CIO or responsible for the digital security of an organization (especially a large one), it's a fairly easy decision to make to choose an effective endpoint protection service. Look at Crowdstrike's clients, which include lots of Fortune 500 companies. Sure, the best cyber protection "is the one between user's ears" like Azazel said, but anyone who has worked entry-level IT support knows that end users are very foolish. For example, the amount of doctors and lawyers I've seen fail basic phishing tests is off the charts. I would argue it's foolish NOT to invest in such a product, you simply can't afford to let malicious actors or software into your environment. Period.
So with that said, I encourage everyone who comments to consider the weight of hard-working, diligent IT teams who've done their best to protect their organizations who didn't deserve this to happen to them. Education is not enough in the age of AI, with threat actors having access to the best tools to create exploits unlike any ever seen before. The good guys need to cooperate to put zero-day vulnerabilities behind them so they can sleep at night. But sure, run Linux and be the smart guy that you are in your personal life and enjoy not really needing AV, but that's not the point here.
Rant over.
As a Linux User, This makes me happy I hope All Windows computers stop working forever.
While I'm not quite on the "antivirus programs are scams" train just yet, it's very easy to see why some people think that. Almost all the antiviruses I've tried so far have been bothersome to say the least except for a few. They either use too much ram/cpu, give me lots of false positives, or don't detect malware caught by virus total (i'm talking stuff that has 10+ positives). Even comparative scores by professionals seem to never actually reflect my actual experiences with one. And now this.
I figured that stuff out in around 2001, and I tend to lean a little more towards most AV programs being scams. My computer came with Norton, and all it did was bog the system down and then beg for subscription money. It was incredibly hard to completely purge from the system, too. I haven't used any type of AV nonsense since. Of course, these days I run Linux, so between that and using common sense, I really don't need it.
LOL, antivirus crashing OS en masse, you can't make this up... As I keep saying, the best cyber protection is the one between user's ears. Those companies probably would be better off having invested that antivirus money in educating their IT personnel.
And fools even cry about Kaspersky's US ban. I'd rather get my leg amputated than install on my working machine a piece of trash like that, one that can bsod me any time, on top of already being a very likely spyware, considering where the company's located.