A botched update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike caused a global outage last Friday, apparently affecting around 8.5 million Windows devices. According to Microsoft itself.
The update triggered a blue screen of death (BSOD) that crashed offline systems used by hospitals, airlines and banks. Only machines running Windows were affected – according to CrowdStrike, the total number of affected devices was “less than one percent of all Windows machines.”
According to CrowdStrike, the update “is designed to target newly observed maliciously named pipes used by common C2 frameworks in cyberattacks.” Unfortunately, it contained a logic error that crashed the OS. In a blog post on 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” to fix the flawed update. Microsoft also enlisted the help of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Unfortunately, everything is not fixed yet – just ask Delta flyers Weekend.
– Matt Smith
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