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CrowdStrike Chaos: Cyber Scammers Pounce Amid Global Outage
CrowdStrike’s recent outage led to global chaos, and now cybercriminals are exploiting the situation. While CISA confirms the outage wasn’t a cyberattack, phishing scams are rampant. Beware of emails promising to “fix the CrowdStrike apocalypse” for a fee. Remember, verify identities before taking sensitive actions.
Hot Take:
So, it turns out that even the cybersecurity giants can have their own digital bloopers, causing the kind of chaos you’d expect from a season finale of a tech thriller! But hey, who needs hackers when you have software updates?
Key Points:
- CrowdStrike’s buggy software update led to a global outage of Windows computers.
- CISA confirmed no cyberattack was involved but warned of phishing attempts exploiting the chaos.
- Malicious actors are already sending phishing emails impersonating CrowdStrike.
- Fixes involve either restarting computers repeatedly or manually removing the defective file.
- CISA is collaborating with various partners to resolve the issue.
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