Tag: CrowdStrike massive outage

New Delhi: As the Microsoft Windows crash created mayhem globally, cyber-security platform CrowdStrike on Friday said it is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.

The company said Apple Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted.

George Kurtz, President and CEO of CrowdStrike, said in a post on

“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website,” he said.

The ongoing global outage of the US tech giant Microsoft has affected millions of users across the world, including in India, where airlines and airport services are majorly hit.

Millions of Microsoft Windows users are experiencing the “Blue Screen of Death” error that causes their computers to shut down or restart.

A Microsoft spokesperson said they are “aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform”. “We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming,” said Microsoft.

New Delhi: The government’s cybersecurity agency CERT-In has issued an advisory on the outage of Microsoft Windows owing to CrowdStrike agent ‘Falcon Sensor’ update.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, informing about the advisory on social media platform

The CERT-In has given it a “Severity Rating and said it outage of Microsoft Windows is due to crowd stike agent Falcon Sensor update.

The concerned Windows hosts are experiencing a “Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)” related to Falcon Sensor.

“It has been reported that Windows hosts related to Crowd strike agent “Falcon Sensor” are facing outages and getting crashed due to recent update received in the product. The concerned windows hosts are experiencing a “Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)” related to Falcon Sensor,” said the cyber security agency.

Microsoft Windows Global Outage: CERT-In has also suggested steps for customers to mitigate the issue

The issues occurred in the latest update of CrowdStrike and the changes have been reverted by the Crowd Strike Team. If hosts are still crashing and unable to stay online to receive the Channel File Changes, the following steps can be used as work around for this issue:

– Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment

– Navigate to the C:WindowsSystem32driversCrowdStrike directory

– Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.

-Boot the host normally.

CERT-In has also advised users to check the latest updates from Crowd Strike portal.

New Delhi: Global cybersecurity platform CrowdStrike is down, claimed several users from across India, Japan, Canada, Australia and many other countries.

CrowdStrike provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to Windows PCs has affected several users who have taken to X and Reddit to report the outage. BSOD error or Blue Screen of Death on the platform are frequently trending on the social media. The outage seems to have affected a host of services in banks, supermarkets, airlines and other major companies.

Meanwhile, Microsoft 365 Status wrote in a post on “We’re investigating an issue impacting users ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services,” it added.

We’re investigating an issue impacting users ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services. More info posted in the admin center under MO821132 and on https://t.co/W5Y8dAkjMk — Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) July 18, 2024

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Blue screen of death reported at multiple companies – Crowd Strike attack

RT If Are you also facing ??#Bluescreen #Microsoft ___PC CrowdStrike#Microsoft pic.twitter.com/JXDRjWWk7L — __________ _ (@Patharbaj) July 19, 2024

CrowdStrike declaring an early weekend by taking out half the world’s systems. Even ransomware isn’t this effective _ — Gabriel (@_theVIVI) July 19, 2024

Crowdstrike decided that people need a day off today. The windows machines around the world should be down. — Lulu (@lulu_blaugrana) July 19, 2024

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Blue screen of death reported at multiple companies – Crowd Strike attack

RT If Are you also facing ??#Bluescreen #Microsoft ___PC CrowdStrike#Microsoft pic.twitter.com/JnaTrzESkJ — ___K AMRAN ___ (@bagwan_kamran) July 19, 2024

Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this? Seems to be entering recovery mode: pic.twitter.com/DxdLyA9BLA — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 19, 2024

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