Category: Viral

With a potentially lengthy recovery ahead, the defective CrowdStrike update that led to an unprecedented worldwide Microsoft outage will ultimately raise questions about the automatic update process for cybersecurity tools. It’s actually no exaggeration to say, as John Hammond did Friday, that the IT outage caused by a defective CrowdStrike software update has been “earth-shattering.”…

Read More

Danny Jenkins—whose company, ThreatLocker, secures the unaffected JetBlue Airways—tells CRN that the seemingly minor nature of the CrowdStrike update was responsible for the sudden widespread impact. The seemingly minor, routine nature of a CrowdStrike Falcon update was a key factor behind the sudden widespread impact from the Microsoft outage caused by the defective update, according…

Read More

Following a CrowdStrike error that caused global IT problems for millions of people, CrowdStrike’s stock is not showing signs of being impacted. Despite a massive defective software incident by CrowdStrike that caused chaos for hospitals, airlines, emergency contact centers and businesses across the world, CrowdStrike’s stock (CRWD) appears to be relatively unscathed by the news…

Read More

Amid fallout from a massive worldwide outage, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz noted that keeping up with hackers requires frequent updates to security tools—and sometimes, something breaks. Maybe it’s too soon to make this point, with travelers still stranded at airports, patients facing health-care disruptions and other widely felt impacts worldwide from CrowdStrike’s defective software update.…

Read More

In terms of recovering from the outage, ‘it could be some time for some systems that just won’t automatically recover,’ Kurtz said in a televised interview. After a CrowdStrike software update caused a massive Microsoft outage with impacts worldwide, “it could be some time” before a full recovery is possible, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said…

Read More

After a defective CrowdStrike software update caused massive impacts to flights, medical services and 911 systems, CrowdStrike will likely take a hit to its strong brand in the cybersecurity market, according to Wedbush Securities’ Daniel Ives. After CrowdStrike’s Falcon software update caused a Microsoft outage and led to massive impacts to flights, medical services and…

Read More

CrowdStrike says that it has deployed a fix after a defective software update led to widespread outages and massive real-world impacts to flights, health-care services and 911 systems. Microsoft tech outages reported Friday led to widespread disruptions worldwide in an incident stemming from a defective software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. The update led to…

Read More

Jul 19, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Cybercrime Two Russian nationals have pleaded guilty in a U.S. court for their participation as affiliates in the LockBit ransomware scheme and helping facilitate ransomware attacks across the world. The defendants include Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 21, of Chechen Republic, and Mikhail Vasiliev, 34, a dual Canadian and Russian national of Bradford,…

Read More

Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill’s threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you can do to mitigate risk. In the current cyber threat landscape, the protection of personal…

Read More

Jul 19, 2024The Hacker NewsMalware / Mobile Security A suspected pro-Houthi threat group targeted at least three humanitarian organizations in Yemen with Android spyware designed to harvest sensitive information. These attacks, attributed to an activity cluster codenamed OilAlpha, entail a new set of malicious mobile apps that come with their own supporting infrastructure, Recorded Future’s…

Read More