US cyber agency CISA says malicious hackers are ‘taking advantage’ of CrowdStrike outage

CISA warns that cybercriminals are exploiting the global CrowdStrike-induced Windows outage with phishing campaigns impersonating CrowdStrike and seeking payments or credentials, despite the outage not being caused by a cyberattack. The report outlines the legitimate remediation steps for affected systems and urges users to verify requests and avoid clicking suspicious links.