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According to Microsoft itself, a faulty update by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike caused a global outage last Friday, affecting around 8.5 million Windows devices.
The update caused blue screens of death (BSODs) and took systems used by hospitals, airlines and banks offline. Only machines running Windows were affected, and CrowdStrike said the total number of affected devices was “less than 1% of all Windows machines.”
According to CrowdStrike, the update was “designed to target newly identified malicious named pipes used by common C2 frameworks in cyber attacks.” Unfortunately, the update contained a logic error that caused the OS to crash. In a blog post on Saturday, Microsoft vice president of enterprise and OS security David Weston wrote that the company is working with CrowdStrike to “develop a scalable solution” to fix the flawed update. Microsoft has also asked Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for assistance.
Unfortunately, the situation isn’t completely resolved yet — just ask any Delta passenger over the weekend.
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