'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.
  • digdilem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    It seems to be crowdstrike reacting to the new update.

    We have got ours up by the very manual process of:

    1 Boot into safe mode.

    1. Navigate to C:\windows\system32\drivers\crowdstrike

    2. Delete C-00000291*.sys

    3. Reboot normally

    • Potatisen@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Maybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?

      • lmaydev@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I guess if the code acted as if it got a valid response without checking it could get into a very weird state. Or the code just fails hard.

        At the driver level it’s very easy to kill things.

      • digdilem@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        It has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    so it got backdoored, or QA is trash or both at the same time. hate it when CI builds come so fast you cant verify the latest shipping rootkit