Microsoft Windows users worldwide including India, Australia, Germany, the United States, the UK and more are seeing a blue screen issue on their laptops. This has made their systems restart or shut down automatically. Dell Technologies has stated that this crash has been caused by a recent CrowdStrike update.
Microsoft Windows 10 is on red alert now, or in Microsoft’s terms, facing the Blue Screen of Death. Many offices and airlines across the globe are experiencing workflow problems as their computer systems running Windows 10 have crashed and are now showing blue screen errors with the message, “The windows did not load correctly.” The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is not a new issue for Microsoft, this time its current impact is particularly severe.
Microsoft Windows Cyber Attack and CrowdStrike
Microsoft, which also reported issues affecting its Azure cloud services and Microsoft 365 suite of apps, fell 2% in premarket trading.
Addressing the incident Friday, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the issues were caused by “a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.”
Shares of the company, which makes software to help firms manage their security in IT environments, tanked 15% in U.S. premarket trading.
Addressing the incident Friday morning, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the issues were caused by “a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.”
Down News Website after Microsoft Windows Cyber Attack
Multiple News websites went down Friday morning, as planes were grounded and News TV studios paused broadcasting, amid an ongoing major IT outage.
Earlier on Friday, CrowdStrike was hit with a major outage caused by an issue with an update affecting its Falcon Sensor product, which is designed to stop cyber breaches using cloud technology. CrowdStrike is now in the process of rolling back the update globally.
“CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor,” CrowdStrike told NBC News in a recorded phone message.
CrowdStrike’s pain is other cyber stocks’ gain Microsoft Windows Cyber Attack
CrowdStrike has been a winner among cyber stocks in the past year, with its shares rising nearly 118% in the last 12 months.
Some analysts had questioned CrowdStrike’s lofty valuation — the company was worth $83.5 billion as of Thursday’s close. Nina Marques, analyst at Redburn Atlantic, said this week that the firm faces challenges competing with other cyber firms in the very large enterprise market.
“CrowdStrike’s strength in the endpoint protection market has long supported its premium valuation compared with peers,” Marques said in a research note Thursday.
“While we do not dispute the quality and performance of CrowdStrike’s products, we do anticipate challenges in the company penetrating the very large enterprise market to maximize cross-sell opportunities enough to offset deflationary impacts.”
The research house downgraded CrowdStrike’s stock to “sell,” on Thursday and slashed its price target to $275, down from $380 — a 28% reduction.
What is causing BSOD right now?
Windows 10 system facing BSOD. Due to this, there is a faulty update in cyber security called Falcon by CrowdStrike. This update is part of the Falcon suite of software. It deals with cyber security defence in computers. A cybersecurity expert on Twitter noted, “CrowdStrike Falcon agents are imploding right now and causing a Blue Screen of Death boot loop on every endpoint. Reports of massive outages globally.”
What is the blue screen of death?
The Blue Screen of Death – BSOD – officially called stop error or stop screen by Microsoft is a critical system error on Windows operating systems that indicates that the system is facing a severe issue and needs an urgent fix. Whenever a system faces BSOD, the Windows system stops all operations to prevent further damage to the machine often leading to the loss of any unsaved work. While an error in the system might not look like a big issue, the blue screen of death is a severe problem and has been ranked just below cyber issues like malware or ransomware.
