On Friday, July 19, a global IT software failure occurred at the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. The company offers cloud workload protection, endpoint security, threat analysis, and cyber attack response services. But as it turned out, they are also vulnerable.
A recent update to CrowdStrike caused many blue screen of death crashes on Windows computers. This critical bug has caused computers to become unusable, effectively paralyzing countless businesses around the world.
Due to these failures, many countries, including Hungary, Germany, the United States, the Netherlands, Spain, and India, experienced difficulties with air travel, with airports and airlines around the world reporting delays and cancellations, and some switching to manual check-in.
There were reports from all over the world of ransomware in the media, banks and other financial institutions, and government agencies. There were also difficulties in the work of emergency and medical services in a number of countries. The work of the Organizing Committee of the 2024 Olympics in Paris was slowed down.
Cybersecurity experts believe that the update itself may have contained a bug that conflicted with Windows systems.
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