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Global Microsoft Meltdown Tied to Bad Crowdstrike Update

ID: 5dbc6d2c-55c2-56b6-973a-a0bb8b30957d

STIX ID: report--5dbc6d2c-55c2-56b6-973a-a0bb8b30957d

Feed Name: Krebs on Security

Date Published: 2024-07-19

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: BrianKrebs

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**CrowdStrike** deployed a faulty update that caused widespread BSOD crashes on **Microsoft Windows** systems globally, disrupting airlines, healthcare, finance, and other services; **Mac** and **Linux** were unaffected. The company emphasized it was not a cyberattack, released a fix, and recommended remediation by booting into Safe Mode or Windows RE and deleting the problematic driver file `C-00000291*.sys`; Microsoft indicated concurrent **Azure** issues were unrelated.

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