Today, Windows computers around the world are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The cause is software from CrowdStrike, whose CEO, George Kurtz, reported on the X social network that the company is “actively working with customers affected by a flaw found in a content update for Windows machines.” He also stressed that Mac and Linux machines were not affected and that the incident was not a cyberattack. Microsoft reported that it had partially restored services.
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“The error has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed,” said Mr. Kurz. In the comments to his post, users of the social network X reminded that, as long-term practice has shown, it is better not to release large-scale updates on Fridays. The failure was caused by the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor cyberattack protection systems.
Microsoft, which unsuccessfully updated the Azure cloud configuration and thereby added fuel to the fire of today’s failure, reported that some services have already been restored – Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft OneNote, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Windows 365, Viva Engage and Microsoft Purview are back in operation. Problems continue in the operation of PowerBI, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 admin center.
“The situation with Microsoft once again demonstrates the importance of import substitution of foreign software, primarily at critical information infrastructure facilities,” they said. RBC to the Ministry of Digital Development. There was no information about any failures in the operation of any Russian systems.
Meanwhile, reports of today’s disruption caused by the CrowdStrike and Microsoft incidents continue to arrive from around the world. Airports in Berlin, Amsterdam, Australia and Spain have begun to check in passengers manually due to the lack of functioning IT systems; disruptions have been reported in the booking systems of Turkish Airlines and several Indian airlines.
The British channel Sky News and the Indian NDTV had to interrupt broadcasting, difficulties were noted in the work of the Australian Channel 10 and ABC. Problems arose in the work of the London Stock Exchange, Lloyds Bank, as well as the payment systems Visa and Mastercard. The failure affected the terminals of retail chains. There were also reports of failures in the work of emergency services in some countries.
CrowdStrike shares fell 16.5% to $287.3, wiping out $13 billion in market cap.
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