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What we know about CrowdStrike’s update fail that’s causing global outages and travel chaos

A faulty software update issued by security giant CrowdStrike has resulted in a massive overnight outage that’s affected Windows computers around the world, disrupting businesses, airports, train stations, banks, broadcasters and the healthcare sector.

CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, but was the result of a “defect” in a software update for its flagship security product, Falcon Sensor. The defect caused any Windows computers that Falcon is installed on to crash without fully loading.

“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” said CrowdStrike in a statement on Friday. Some businesses and organizations are beginning to recover, but many expect the outages to drag on into the weekend or next week given the complexity of the fix. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told NBC News that it may take “some time for some systems that just automatically won’t recover.” In a later tweet, Kurtz apologized for the disruption.

Here’s everything you need to know about the outages.
What happened?

Late Thursday into Friday, reports began to emerge of IT problems wherein Windows computers were getting stuck with the infamous “blue screen of death” — a bright blue error screen with a message that displays when Windows encounters a critical failure, crashes or cannot load.

The outages were first noticed in Australia early on Friday, and reports quickly came in from the rest of Asia and Europe as the regions began their day, as well as the United States.

Within a short time, CrowdStrike confirmed that a software update for Falcon had malfunctioned and was causing Windows computers that had the software installed to crash. Falcon lets CrowdStrike remotely analyze and check for malicious threats and malware on installed computers.

At around the same time, Microsoft reported a significant outage at one of its most used Azure cloud regions covering much of the central United States. A spokesperson for Microsoft told TechCrunch that its outage was unrelated to CrowdStrike’s incident.

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Around Friday noon (Eastern time), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X saying the company is aware of the CrowdStrike botched update and is “working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.”

What is CrowdStrike and what does Falcon Sensor do?

CrowdStrike, founded in 2011, has quickly grown into a cybersecurity giant. Today the company provides software and services to 29,000 corporate customers, including around half of Fortune 500 companies, 43 out of 50 U.S. states and eight out of the top 10 tech firms, according to its website.

The company’s cybersecurity software, Falcon, is used by enterprises to manage security on millions of computers around the world. These businesses include large corporations, hospitals, transportation hubs and government departments. Most consumer devices do not run Falcon and are unaffected by this outage.

One of the company’s biggest recent claims to fame was when it caught a group of Russian government hackers breaking into the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. CrowdStrike is also known for using memorable animal-themed names for the hacking groups it tracks based on their nationality, such as: Fancy Bear, believed to be part of Russia’s General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU; Cozy Bear, believed to be part of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR; Gothic Panda, believed to be a Chinese government group; and Charming Kitten, believed to be an Iranian state-backed group. The company even makes action figures to represent these groups, which it sells as swag.

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Who is affected?

Practically anyone who during their everyday life interacts with a computer system running software from CrowdStrike is affected, even if the computer isn’t theirs.

These devices include the cash registers at grocery stores, departure boards at airports and train stations, school computers, your work-issued laptops and desktops, airport check-in systems, airlines’ own ticketing and scheduling platforms, healthcare networks and many more. Because CrowdStrike’s software is so ubiquitous, the outages are causing chaos around the world in a variety of ways. A single affected Windows computer in a fleet of systems could be enough to disrupt the network.

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In Historic Shift, British Newspapers Begin Warning Of "Perils" Of Cashless-Society After Global IT Outage

The mainstream media has, until now, played a key role in advancing the Global War on Cash - a war that began with no official declaration but in which propaganda, as with all wars, is a vital weapon.

Last week’s global IT outage appears to have shaken some British media outlets’ confidence in the idea of a fully cashless society. When a content update by the cyber-security giant CrowdStrike caused millions of Microsoft systems around the world to crash on Friday morning, bringing the operating systems of banks, payment card firms, airlines, hospitals, NHS clinics, retailers and hospitality businesses to a standstill, businesses were faced with a stark choice: go cash-only, or close until the systems came back online. From WIRED magazine:

This quickly caused chaos in Australia, whose government has explicitly encouraged businesses to go cashless. Pictures posted on social media showed card-only self-checkout registers at the grocery chain Coles displaying Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). Queues for human-run registers at Australian groceries stretched to the back of the store, according to local media. Some Australian marts simply locked their doors…

Starbucks—whose then-CEO said in 2020 was shifting “toward more cashless experiences”—appeared to have been particularly hard hit.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah... That was a colossal fuck up. Arguably even bigger than DEI Cheatle's Secret Service fuck up just because of the sheer volume of lives that it impacted.

It's made even worse that it was the same company that worked for the DNC and the Media couldn't stop talking about them for months.



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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah... That was a colossal fuck up. Arguably even bigger than DEI Cheatle's Secret Service fuck up just because of the sheer volume of lives that it impacted.

It's made even worse that it was the same company that worked for the DNC and the Media couldn't stop talking about them for months.



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Trump will be fine.
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Theyre probably tied in with the NSA or one ofvthe other three letter "security" agencies, as well as the DNC.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
I think I posted on this roughly the same time but didn't see this thread, I will assume its the first with more replies

it has it all the DNC, investing in the Pelosi? backing of Soros types Hillary, Pentagon and FBI type people, the McAfee gun nut on the run and other McAfee links, Seth Rich death and Assange reward. FBI links, wikileaks stuff, Dmitri Alperovitch, the Ukraine and Democrat hack and Pissgate politics, international British Euro Israeli money. Reddit censors and shadowbanned comments, billion dollars in debt and losing money on an ongoing basis.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
For those interested in the recent news regarding Crowdstrike, consider that Crowdstrike is part of the Global Cyber Alliance, part of the WEF-led effort to force you to adopt digital ID for internet access in order to stop "cybercrime".

https://x.com/_whitneywebb/status/1814312357587214467

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