Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said Friday that an issue that has caused major disruptions to companies worldwide is not a security incident or cyberattack.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz posted on social media platform X that the company “is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts”.

‘Issue found, fix deployed’

After various businesses across the world reported IT outages on Friday, which included seeing the “Windows blue screen of death’, CrowdStrike the security firm linked to a software update that caused the outage says that the issue has been isolated and a fix deployed.