Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage 2024-07-29 at 19:31 By Zeljka Zorz Estimated financial losses due to the recent massive IT outage triggered by the faulty CrowdStrike update are counted in billions, but the unfortunate incident is having several positive effects, as well. Some silver linings As CrowdStrike was forced to explain, […]
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97% of Devices Disrupted by CrowdStrike Restored as Insurer Estimates Billions in Losses 2024-07-26 at 11:17 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike says 97% of Windows systems impacted by its bad update are back online, just as an insurer predicts billions in losses for major companies. The post 97% of Devices Disrupted by CrowdStrike Restored as Insurer
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CrowdStrike blames buggy testing software for disastrous update 2024-07-24 at 15:32 By Zeljka Zorz A bug in the Content Validator – a software element CrowdStrike relies on for testing and validating Rapid Response Content updates for its Falcon Sensors – is (partly) why the faulty update wasn’t caught in time, the company said. In a
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CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested 2024-07-24 at 14:16 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike has shared a preliminary incident review, explaining why the update that caused global chaos was not caught by testing. The post CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt
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Most Airlines Except One Are Recovering From the CrowdStrike Tech Outage. The Feds Have Noticed 2024-07-24 at 05:16 By Associated Press Delta has canceled more than 5,500 flights since the outage started early Friday morning. The post Most Airlines Except One Are Recovering From the CrowdStrike Tech Outage. The Feds Have Noticed appeared first on
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CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death 2024-07-23 at 15:16 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike tested a new technique to speed up the remediation of systems impacted by the recent bad update. The post CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death appeared first on SecurityWeek. This
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Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update 2024-07-22 at 15:16 By Zeljka Zorz By now, most people are aware of – or have been personally affected by – the largest IT outage the world have ever witnessed, courtesy of a defective update for Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors that threw Windows
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CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams 2024-07-22 at 13:47 By Eduard Kovacs The major IT outage caused by CrowdStrike is being leveraged by threat actors for phishing, scams, and malware delivery. The post CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS
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Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Windows Devices Impacted by CrowdStrike Incident, Publishes Recovery Tool 2024-07-21 at 16:31 By Mike Lennon Microsoft says roughly 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by the faulty software update from CrowdStrike, and published a tool to help admins through the recovery process. The post Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Windows Devices Impacted
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Threat Actors Exploit Recent CrowdStrike Outage to Ramp Up Suspicious Domain Creation 2024-07-20 at 19:46 By dakshsharma16 On July 19th, 2024, CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity provider of advanced end-point security detection and protection solutions, released a sensor configuration update to Windows systems. This update contained a logic error that resulted in system crashes and Blue
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CrowdStrike Provides Remediation Guidance After Software Update Causes Worldwide IT Chaos 2024-07-20 at 17:01 By Mike Lennon CrowdStrike on Saturday provided technical information and remediation guidance to help organizations impacted by the faulty software update that trigged massive IT outages across the globe on Friday. The post CrowdStrike Provides Remediation Guidance After Software Update
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CrowdStrike Says Logic Error Caused Windows BSOD Chaos 2024-07-20 at 08:16 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike says a routine sensor configuration update pushed to Windows OS triggered a logic error that blue-screened computers worldwide. The post CrowdStrike Says Logic Error Caused Windows BSOD Chaos appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS
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Update: Worldwide IT outage due to buggy Crowdstrike update 2024-07-19 at 19:46 By Zeljka Zorz The world is 16+ hours into what looks like the biggest IT outage in history, triggered by a defective update for Crowdstrike endpoint security software for Windows machines. The price of both Crowdstrike’s and Microsoft’s shares tumbled down as a
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Bad CrowdStrike Update Linked to Major IT Outages Worldwide 2024-07-19 at 14:01 By Eduard Kovacs Organizations worldwide are reporting major outages due to Windows system crashes caused by a bad CrowdStrike update. The post Bad CrowdStrike Update Linked to Major IT Outages Worldwide appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS
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Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide 2024-07-19 at 11:31 By Zeljka Zorz Thousands and possibly millions of Windows computers and servers worldwide have been made inoperable by a faulty update of Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors, and the outage affected transport, broadcast, financial, retail and other organizations have been affected in Europe, Australia, the US
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CrushFTP zero-day exploited by attackers, upgrade immediately! (CVE-2024-4040) 2024-04-23 at 13:01 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2024-4040) in enterprise file transfer solution CrushFTP is being exploited by attackers in a targeted fashion, according to Crowdstrike. The vulnerability allows attackers to escape their virtual file system and download system files (i.e., configuration files), but only if
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CrowdStrike to Acquire Flow Security 2024-03-06 at 05:03 By SecurityWeek News CrowdStrike says the acquisition of Flow Security will expand its cloud security capabilities with Data Security Posture Management. The post CrowdStrike to Acquire Flow Security appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source React to this
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Attack velocity surges with average breakout time down to only 62 minutes 2024-02-22 at 07:31 By Help Net Security The speed of cyberattacks continues to accelerate at an alarming rate, according to CrowdStrike. Adversaries increasingly exploit stolen credentials The speed of cyberattacks continues to accelerate at an alarming rate. The report indicates that the average
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AnyDesk has been hacked, users urged to change passwords 2024-02-05 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz AnyDesk Software GmbH, the German company behind the widely used (and misused) remote desktop application of the same name, has confirmed they’ve been hacked and their production systems have been compromised. The statement was published on Friday evening and lacks
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“Pool Party” process injection techniques evade EDRs 12/12/2023 at 14:01 By Zeljka Zorz SafeBreach researchers have discovered eight new process injection techniques that can be used to covertly execute malicious code on Windows systems. Dubbed “Pool Party” because they (ab)use Windows thread pools, these process injection techniques work across all processes and, according to the
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