Neowin News Feed for: Crowdstrike

Apple's ‘Blue Screen of Death' ad mocks Windows PCs

Hamid Ganji — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:46:01 +0000

Apple has released a new ad that takes a dig at Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) while proudly flaunting the strength of Mac security. Read more...

Microsoft and Crowdstrike announce partnership on threat actor naming

Pradeep Viswanathan — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:56:01 +0000

Different security companies use unique internal procedures to name cyberattacks and threat actors, leading to inconsistencies, confusion, and delays in response. Read more...

Microsoft reveals ideas to improve Windows security updates after the Crowdstrike incident

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:42:01 +0000

Microsoft has offered a summary of some new ideas for boosting Windows security and updates in the near and far term after July's faulty Crowdstrike software update. Read more...

A CrowdStrike executive will testify in front of the US Congress on July's Windows PC outage

John Callaham — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:32:01 +0000

Crowdstrike senior VP Adam Meyers will testify before the US House of Representatives in September about July's faulty update that shut down millions of Windows PCs. Read more...

Microsoft will host a special security summit in September with CrowdStrike attending

John Callaham — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:06:02 +0000

Microsoft has just announced it will be holding a special summit on September 10 to discuss endpoint security, and reps from CrowdStrike will be attending. Read more...

Crowdstrike's president personally accepted the Most Epic Fail award at DEF CON

John Callaham — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:46:01 +0000

Crowdstrike President Michael Sentonas attended the annual DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas this past weekend, and personally accepted the event's Pwnie Award for Most Epic Fail of 2024. Read more...

CrowdStrike reveals final report on July's botched update with plans to prevent those issues

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:34:01 +0000

CrowdStrike has posted its final report on what happened to cause July's update that ended up taking down millions of Windows PCs. It also posted plans to keep issues like this from happening again. Read more...

Now Microsoft says Delta ignored its offers to help the airline with its CrowdStrike issues

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:46:01 +0000

Microsoft now says that it sent offers to help Delta Airlines recover from its CrowdStrike issues, but those offers were ignored, including an email sent by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Read more...

CrowdStrike claims Delta did not respond to offers of onsite help during outage event

John Callaham — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:38:03 +0000

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has now stated that it reached out to Delta Airlines to help them restore the PCs that were taken down by July's faulty update, but that the company did not respond. Read more...

Delta Airlines is reportedly planning to file lawsuits against CrowdStrike and Microsoft

John Callaham — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:46:02 +0000

Delta Airlines has reportedly hired the well-known attorney David Boies, and he may be planning to file lawsuits against both CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the huge outage caused by a faulty update. Read more...

Microsoft finally explains the root cause behind CrowdStrike outage

Pradeep Viswanathan — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:26:01 +0000

Microsoft outlined several built-in security features in Windows and plans to collaborate with the anti-malware ecosystem for improved security. They're also developing safer rollout strategies. Read more...

Systems paralyzed by CrowdStrike within 78 minutes to cause $15 billion in losses worldwide

Martin Hodás — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:10:01 +0000

Even though the massive CrowdStrike outage caused billions in damages, insurance companies will cover only a fraction of the losses. A third of the total cost comes from the Fortune 500 businesses. Read more...

CrowdStrike CEO: Over 97 percent of Windows sensors are now back online following outage

John Callaham — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:36:01 +0000

Nearly a week after a failed update from CrowdStrike shut down over 8 million Windows PCs worldwide, the company's CEO now says that over 97 percent of Windows sensors are back online. Read more...

Microsoft: Windows "must prioritize change and innovation" in resiliency post-CrowdStrike

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:22:01 +0000

In a new blog post, Microsoft says that last week's Windows issues caused by the fault CrowdStrike update shows "Windows must prioritize change and innovation" with "end-to-end resilience." Read more...

CrowdStrike is sending customers affected by last week's outage a $10 UberEats gift card

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:44:01 +0000

A number of people who use CrowdStrike and got hit with last week's faulty update that caused outages in Windows PCs have been sent $10 Uber Eats digital gift cards as an "apology". Read more...

CrowdStrike finally explains in brief what caused the global Windows blue screen outage

Sayan Sen — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:32:02 +0000

Last week, a botched Crowdstrike update led to a global outage where many Windows PCs running the software were BSODing. Now that the mayhem is clearing up, Crowdstrike has explained what went wrong. Read more...

Fake CrowdStrike manual delivers malware, not recovery

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:16:01 +0000

Cybercriminals are exploiting the recent faulty CrowdStrike update outage using a fake Microsoft recovery manual Word document to deliver a stealer malware which is now tracked as Daolpu. Read more...

Failed CrowdStrike update has caused Delta Airlines to cancel hundreds of flights today

John Callaham — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:36:02 +0000

Delta Airlines is still struggling to get back up to speed thanks to the failed CrowdStrike update on Friday. The major air carrier has already canceled 550 flights today while other airlines recover. Read more...

CrowdStrike deploys new technique to accelerate BSOD recovery on millions of PCs

Pradeep Viswanathan — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:20:01 +0000

CrowdStrike and Microsoft have provided recovery tools, but the process is time-consuming. CrowdStrike is now working on a faster remediation technique that will be released to its customers. Read more...

CrowdStrike posts detailed guidance to fix Windows BSOD outage issue

Sayan Sen — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:14:01 +0000

After its buggy update that led to a global Windows meltdown and BSOD mayhem, CrowdStrike has been proactively trying to help. Now the firm has published new detailed guidance on it. Read more...

Microsoft updates CrowdStrike recovery tool with two new options and ADK detection fix

Taras Buria — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:58:01 +0000

Shortly after releasing a tool for fixing Windows PCs knocked down by the CrowdStrike outage, Microsoft pushed a newer version with two new recovery options and an ADK detection fix. Read more...

Cybercriminals exploit CrowdStrike chaos to spread Crowdstrike-hotfix.zip malware

Pradeep Viswanathan — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:57:36 +0000

While CrowdStrike and Microsoft provided fixes, cybercriminals exploited the situation by spreading malware disguised as a hotfix and launching phishing campaigns targeting CrowdStrike customers. Read more...

Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

Paul Hill — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:58:01 +0000

The CrowdStrike Windows outage that hit the world this week stems back to an EU-Microsoft deal from 2009 that meant Microsoft had to give antivirus vendors the same Windows API access it had. Read more...

Microsoft released a tool for auto-fixing CrowdStrike blue screens of death on Windows PCs

Taras Buria — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:24:01 +0000

Microsoft released a new tool to help IT admins fix over 8 millions of Windows PCs hit by the recent CrowdStrike outage. With the help of a USB drive, it can automate and speed up the recovery. Read more...

Microsoft: CrowdStrike's outage affected 8.5 million Windows PCs worldwide

Pradeep Viswanathan — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:16:01 +0000

Microsoft confirmed that 8.5 million devices were affected, less than 1% of all Windows machines, but the impact was widespread due to CrowdStrike's extensive use in critical infrastructure. Read more...

Microsoft releases step-by-step guides about fixing CrowdStrike blue screens of death

Taras Buria — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 09:46:01 +0000

Microsoft has published detailed step-by-step guides that should help users and IT admins get their computers back to work after the CrowdStrike Falcon agent took down thousands of PCs worldwide. Read more...

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:14:01 +0000

CrowdStrike recently caused a widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs, disrupting various sectors. However, this was not an isolated incident, CrowdStrike affected Linux PCs also. Read more...

The CrowdStrike Windows outage continues to affect tons of critical businesses worldwide

John Callaham — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:38:01 +0000

The mass outage of Windows systems thanks to a faulty security update from CrowdStrike continues to affect many critical businesses worldwide, even as a fix has been found and is rolling out. Read more...

How to fix CrowdStrike BSOD issue on Windows PCs [Update]

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:10:01 +0000

We now have the official fix from CrowdStrike on how to deal with the Falcon Sensor for Windows update error which caused a critical issue that is currently affecting tons of PCs worldwide. Read more...

Microsoft guides on how to restore BSODing Windows PCs struck down by Crowdstrike Falcon

Sayan Sen — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:40:01 +0000

Earlier today, Crowdstrike pushed a buggy Falcon Sensor update leading to BSODs across the world's computers running Windows. Microsoft has pointed to its guidance on how to restore affected systems. Read more...

CrowdStrike CEO: It "could be some time" for all systems to recover from software outage

John Callaham — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:52:01 +0000

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz stated in his first TV interview since this morning's worldwide Windows-based software outage that it "could be some time" before all the systems affected by it recover. Read more...

Botched security update breaks Windows worldwide, causing BSOD and crashes

Taras Buria — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:39:53 +0000

Windows systems across the world are not having a good time right now. A botched security update from CrowdStrike is taking down Windows PCs, causing blue screens of death, crashes, and more. Read more...

CrowdStrike details Spyboy Terminator said to kill Microsoft Defender, Avast, and more EDRs

Sayan Sen — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:02:01 +0000

CrowdStrike has shared details on Spyboy Terminator EDR killer. It is one of the EDRs, alongside the likes of Microsoft Defender, Avast, and more, that can be disabled by the evasion tool. Read more...

New year brings bad news for Linux as 2021 saw up to 10 times more malware samples

Sayan Sen — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:30:02 +0000

According to a CrowdStrike report, Linux malware and malware samples have increased by a lot in 2021 as compared to a year prior. One of the malware types has seen submissions increase by tenfold. Read more...

Another Kelihos-based botnet shut down

John Callaham — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:27:09 +0000

Yet another organized botnet, this time based on the Kelihos.B malware, has been shut down. The botnet reportedly had a network that spanned over 110,000 different PCs. Read more...

Windows Phone not affected by smartphone exploit

John Callaham — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:00:28 +0000

The newly launched software security firm CrowdStrike has said that Windows Phone device cannot be affected by the exploit it discovered on Android-based smartphones last week. Read more...

Report: Android bug leave phones open to attack

John Callaham — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:49:56 +0000

A newly revealed software security firm claims it has found a bug in Android-based smartphones that could leave them open to attack and have them controlled by outside users. Read more...