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.
The year that the Generative Election will be is 2024
A report by OpenAI, a cybersecurity firm, has claimed that Russia, Iran, China and Israel are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (IAI) for foreign influence operations. The report said that Russia’s Doppleganger and China’s Spamoflauge are experimenting with the use of IAI. It added that generative AI cannot reliably produce good copy or code.