There are two major outages currently affecting systems around the world. The first issue began Thursday, July 18 with a configuration change in the Microsoft Azure infrastructure that resulted in Microsoft 365 services being unavailable to a subset of Microsoft customers. The status of this issue can be viewed Here.
Additionally, an issue impacting Windows hosts with the Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor may encounter a bug check and get stuck in a restarting state.
If you are not impacted by either of these outages, please keep in mind other businesses and organizations will be and may be delayed in responses. JSCM Group was unaffected and is ready to provide assistance for clients that need help. Please contact the Helpdesk should you have any questions.
Summary
CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor.
Details
Symptoms include hosts experiencing a bugcheck\blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor.
Windows hosts which have not been impacted do not require any action as the problematic channel file has been reverted.
Windows hosts which are brought online after 0527 UTC will also not be impacted
Hosts running Windows7/2008 R2 are not impacted.
This issue is not impacting Mac- or Linux-based hosts
Regards,
JSCM Group Security Team
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