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The global outage, caused by a faulty update delivered by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday, affected around 8.5 million Windows devices. Microsoft The update caused blue screens of death and temporary outages on systems used by hospitals, airlines, banks and other key services, the company said in a blog post. Only machines running Windows were affected.
The issue was largely resolved by Friday afternoon, but Microsoft and CrowdStrike are still dealing with the fallout. In a blog post Saturday, David Weston, Microsoft’s vice president of enterprise and OS security, wrote that the company is working with CrowdStrike to “develop a scalable solution that will enable Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure to rapidly remediate CrowdStrike’s faulty update.” Microsoft has also asked Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for help.
Crowdstrike The company said in its blog post on Saturday that the update — a sensor configuration update — was “designed to target newly identified malicious named pipes used by common C2 frameworks in cyber attacks.” Unfortunately, devices running Windows 7.11 and later using CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensors instead “experienced a logic error, causing the operating system to crash.” Weston said the total number of affected devices was “less than 1% of all Windows machines.”
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