CrowdStrike: Worst Update in History takes down Computers

PC Security Channel • July 21, 2024

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Video Description

CrowdStrike released a faulty update that crashed (BSOD) almost 8.5 million systems worse than any ransomware could, cough wannacry, causing the largest IT outage in history, hitting airports, emergency services and countless organizations. This video explores the incident and presents my take. If you are affected by the issue go to safe mode cmd and use: del "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike\C-00000291*.sys" to fix. Technical explanation of broken update by CrowdStrike: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/ Microsoft tool to help with recovery process: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/new-recovery-tool-to-help-with-crowdstrike-issue-impacting/ba-p/4196959 Mal X: https://thepcsecuritychannel.com/malx Join the discussion on Discord: http://discord.tpsc.tech/ Get your business endpoints tested by us: http://tpsc.tech/ Contact us for business: https://thepcsecuritychannel.com/contact