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CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world
2024-07-19 06:46

Updated An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows globally.

The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10 PCs crashing, displaying the Blue Screen of Death, then being unable to reboot.

An apparent screenshot of that article reads "CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor. Symptoms include hosts experiencing a bugcheckblue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor."

CrowdStrike's engineers are working on the issue.

Falcon Sensor is an agent that CrowdStrike claims "Blocks attacks on your systems while capturing and recording activity as it happens to detect threats fast."

There is a faulty channel file, so not quite an update.


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