An update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike led to a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, which impacted businesses globally.
CrowdStrikesaid it is now in the process of rolling back the update that caused the issue. The outage is not believed to be a result of a hack or any malicious action.that its cloud services had been mostly restored after it suffered an outage affecting its cloud apps in the U.S. It is not clear whether this outage was linked to CrowdStrike's update.
However, separately, the update issue at CrowdStrike appears to have directly affected Windows systems around the world, with laptops showing an error screen known as the"blue screen of death.""CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor," CrowdStrike said in a recorded phone message.
Beyond the travel sector, banks and financial companies around the world have reported issues, with the London Stock Exchange reporting technical issues with its data and news platform. German finance giant Allianz said it was"experiencing a major outage that is impacting employees ability to log into their computers. It impacts multiple companies besides Allianz, specifically affecting the Windows login and is caused by an incident at our provider CrowdStrike."
A Visa spokesperson said that although its ability to process payments does not appear to be affected,"we are aware of reports of people being unable to make payments and are working with our financial institution clients to understand any impact on their services to cardholders and merchants.""The glitch is due to a software update of CrowdStrike's EDR product. This is a product that runs with high privileges that protects endpoints.
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