Widespread IT Outage Due to CrowdStrike Update

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Widespread IT Outage Due to CrowdStrike Update
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August 6, 2024 | Originally published by Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on July 24, 2024

Note: CISA will update this Alert with more information as it becomes available.

Update 12:00 p.m., EDT, July 24, 2024:

CrowdStrike continues to provide updates to its guidance, including:

  • An instructional video to guide users through a self-remediation process.
  • An update to their initial remediation that accelerates remediation of impacted systems; CrowdStrike encourages customers to “follow the Tech Alerts for latest updates as they happen.”
  • A “Preliminary Incident Review,” which provides answers to why and how the outage occurred and how they will prevent such outages going forward.

CrowdStrike also published a list of domains impersonating the CrowdStrike brand, which threat actors could use to deliver malicious content.