Delta canceled hundreds of flights in the aftermath of Crowdstrike failures
US Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Delta Air Lines that the airline must honour customer service commitments after several flights were cancelled due to Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike’s faulty Windows update. Bastian told the US DOT that the airline gave waivers to customers on flights that had been affected by the outage, allowing them to change itinerary and rebook services free of charge.
IT outage affects millions around the globe
The global IT failure caused by CrowdStrike, which began on Friday and is now in the hands of cybercriminals, has affected financial services firms, media broadcasters and airlines across the world, including Australia. The disruption was also reported in the US, Japan, UK, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Argentina. CrowdStrike has attributed the global outage to the Falcon Sensor platform.
What’s CrowdStrike, and what happened?
US-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has warned of hackers reserving domain names to run “CrowdStrike Support” scams after its customers were hit by a widespread malware attack on Thursday. CrowdStrike’s research revealed the attackers were trying to send fraudulent mails and make fake calls pretending to be CrowdStrike staff to trick people into giving up their credentials.
Hospitals Around the World are in a state of crisis because of the IT crash
The global ‘blue screen’ of death was caused by an update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, The Verge reported. According to the report, the update caused a bug in CrowdStrike’s antivirus software which caused many Windows machines to crash and cause them to boot into a boot loop. CrowdStrike said it has deployed a fix for the bug but this could take days to resolve.