The major IT outage of yesterday may have been resolved, but many companies are still struggling with the problems. According to cybersecurity experts, these problems could even grow, because hackers are trying to profit from the chaos.
Yesterday’s IT outage is still having a major impact on the world. Airports and hospitals are trying to get back on track. Yesterday, many Windows computers went to the fatal blue screen and could not boot normally. Security company CrowdStrike was the cause of the problem: it had released an update that was bad. The company eventually fixed it, but after hours of outage, the impact on many companies and processes was already severely disrupted.
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Hackers are happy to take advantage of this chaos, says American security organization CISA. In a statement, it says that it notices that threats are increasing and that there is clearly more malicious activity taking place. It shows know: “Threat actors continue to use the widespread IT outage for phishing and other malicious activity. There has already been an increase in phishing linked to this outage, as opportunistic attackers attempt to exploit the situation. This can target both organizations and individuals.”
In short, pay close attention to whether emails or messages are genuine, especially if they are about this topic. In the meantime, CrowdStrike apologized for the outage. CEO George Kurtz said: “I want to sincerely apologize to all of you for today’s outage. CrowdStrike understands the severity and impact of the situation. We quickly identified the issue and implemented a fix so we can focus on restoring customer systems as our highest priority. The outage was caused by a defect in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts were not affected. This was not a cyberattack.”
However, it does at least lead to an increase in the number of cyber attacks, so be alert to that.
Check out the funniest memes about the outage here.
Source: www.bright.nl
