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A major disruption to Windows PCs in the U.S., U.K., Australia, South Africa and other countries was caused by an error in a CrowdStrike update, the cloud security company announced on Friday. Blue Screen of Death widespread due to CrowdStrike outage.
CrowdStrike released a Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) on the faulty Falcon update explaining that a bug allowed bad data to pass its Content Validator and cause millions of Windows systems...
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...
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Wednesday blamed an issue in its validation system for causing millions of Windows devices to crash as part of a widespread outage late last week. "On Friday,...
CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week. Rapid response content is delivered in those channel files as so-called "Template instances," which CrowdStrike describes as "Instantiations of a given template type." Thus, the rapid response content relies on template code defined by the base sensor content, and each piece of this response content is a template instance.
Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.…
Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft Windows machines around the world to crash. Channel Files are updated over time by CrowdStrike and pushed to systems running its software.
How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind? If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it's to understand exactly what delayed updates mean –...
Thousands of typosquatting domains are now registered to exploit the desperation of IT admins still struggling to recover from last week's CrowdStrike outage, researchers say. The incident wasn't isolated and CrowdStrike was forced to issue a public memo on the same day warning against opportunistic cybercriminals exploiting the situation.
CrowdStrike is warning that a fake recovery manual to repair Windows devices is installing a new information-stealing malware called Daolpu. [...]