A US-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrikewhich caused Windows computers to stop functioning properly.

Well this Why did it happen? Let’s take a closer look at the incident in all its details.

CrowdStrike is a US-based cybersecurity company that provides security in internet-accessible IT environments.

CrowdStrike, Former McAfee employee George Kurtz in 2011 It was founded by and its owners include institutional investors, listed companies and individual investors. The company’s largest investors include large US investment funds such as The Vanguard Group.

George Kurtz

The company specializes in cybersecurity to protect its customers from cyber attacks and prevent data leaks. CrowdStrike It offers products like Falcon. Falcon is known for its real-time attack indicators, hyper-accurate diagnostics, and automatic protection features.

Recently CrowdStrike service outageIt is believed that Microsoft products may have played a role in the incident, which is said to have caused global disruption across many industries. This may be due to an issue with the company’s updated Falcon product.

Global investment banks, Companies across sectors, such as universities and leading Australian gambling agency TAB Corp, are increasing their protection needs as cybersecurity threats grow.

This also applies to large companies such as Ticketmaster, Medibank and Optus.

CrowdStrike Falconis preferred by thousands of companies worldwide and is used to ensure data security. The server outage caused a global disruption of Microsoft products. In this situation In the CrowdStrike Falcon product It is caused by a problem.

The statement issued after the outage stated that the incident was caused by a problem with the Falcon product. also in Turkey airlines And banking services Many institutions, especially Turkey, were negatively affected by this situation.

Moreover, this is not the first time this has happened!

CrowdStrike’s csagent.sys The kernel driver has been known to cause Blue Screen Error (BSOD) issues in Windows several times before. These issues usually occurred with certain driver versions.

in 2023 CrowdStrike version 6.58 causes widespread BSOD caused issues and this version was later withdrawn. The csagent.sys driver has also been reported to cause various BSOD errors on Windows 10 devices. This suggests that certain driver versions and settings can cause such issues.

Such issues may arise from time to time due to the complexity of cybersecurity software and its operation at the system level. CrowdStrike and other security companiesregularly releases updates to fix and prevent such issues.

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