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Crowdstrike published a faulty update. Causes Windows to bluescreen. Driver is C-00000291*.sys. Will cause worldwide outages. Thread follows, I suspect. 🧵

I am obtaining a copy of the driver to see if malicious or bad coding, if anybody else checking let me know.

If anybody is wondering the impact of the Crowdstrike thing - it’s really bad. Machines don’t boot.

The recovery is boot in safe mode, log in as local admin and delete things - which isn’t automateable. Basically Crowdstrike will be in very hot water.

You know it was coming...

Crowdstrike's BSOP theme tune

Sky News has gone off air in the UK.

Favour to IT folks fixing - could you please copy the C-00000291*.sys file to somewhere and upload it to Virustotal, and reply with the Virustotal link or file hash? It's still unclear if the update was malicious or just a bug.

Andreas

@GossiTheDog

According to our IT the *32.sys is the broken one, and *33.sys the fixed version

C-00000291-00000000-00000032.sys
7697824964fb1db2f4b5174f9fc081dca90fe9ab8afb1e2f679578a76d511b58

C-00000291-00000000-00000033.sys
9ca565965198cf1a5073ce974c5826d14aa3ac3cf574b3d2d2e7f80624b9ed90