ClosedCriticalPatched
Day · Aug 6, 2024
CrowdStrike Falcon update crashes 8.5 million Windows machines
CrowdStrike Falcon sensor for Windows
Updates on Aug 6, 2024
CrowdStrike publishes the Channel File 291 root cause analysis
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Summary
A faulty CrowdStrike Falcon sensor configuration update (Channel File 291) caused a logic error that blue-screened Windows hosts running sensor 7.11 and later that were online between 04:09 and 05:27 UTC on 2024-07-19. Microsoft estimated 8.5 million Windows devices were affected CrowdStrike stressed it was not a cyberattack; it is tracked here because a security agent with kernel-level access took down machines worldwide.
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