CrowdStrike system meltdown
published on 2024/07/19
The cause of the outages isn't entirely confirmed, but the prevailing explanation is that a faulty channel file in CrowdStrike Falcon – the vendor's flagship EDR solution trusted by organizations the world over – is to blame.
The full advisory is available to paying CrowdStrike customers, however, the director of the vendor's managed hunting service OverWatch, Brody Nisbet, said the dodgy content update has been reversed.
It means there should be no new BSODs going forward, but it won't reverse the damage that's already been done – that'll be a job for IT admins who are sure to have the very worst of Fridays. Hopefully the work doesn't bleed into the weekend.
George Kurtz, the founder and chief executive of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has said the company is “deeply sorry for impact that we’ve caused to customers” after a flawed software update prompted a global IT outage.
It is crazy that our global IT system is so fragile. It is ironic that an EDR solution (The Endpoint Detection and Response Solutions (EDR)), a system that supposed to keep our systems and network safe, bring down so many computers.