CrowdStrike Fault Causes Global IT Outages
A suspected technical issue at cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike is causing mass IT outages across the world, disrupting critical sectors such as airlines, banks, media and retailing.
The issue appears to concern an update to CrowdStrike’s security platform Falcon Sensor, which is impacting Microsoft Windows operating systems. Reports suggest the affected systems are struggling to boot correctly, causing a bluescreen error to appear.
In a statement on X (formerly Twitter) at 10.45am BST, CrowdStrike President and CEO George Kurtz said the firm was actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.
He emphasized the issue is not related to a cyber-incident, and has been identified, isolated and fixed.
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