July 22, 2024 at 06:42AM
Threat actors are exploiting the CrowdStrike incident, causing disruptions across various industries. Malicious activities include phishing, malware delivery, and scams. Organizations are urged to remain vigilant and employ caution when dealing with suspicious emails or links. Numerous domains referencing CrowdStrike have been registered, potentially used for nefarious purposes. Government agencies have also issued warnings.
Key takeaways from the meeting notes:
– Threat actors are leveraging the CrowdStrike incident for phishing, scams, and malware delivery.
– CrowdStrike pushed out a routine sensor configuration update, causing major disruptions due to a logic error triggering a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on Windows systems.
– CrowdStrike, Microsoft, and others are providing tools and resources to help impacted organizations restore systems.
– Threat intelligence firms reported HijackLoader payloads being delivered through archive files named ‘crowdstrike-hotfix’ in Latin America.
– Malicious hotfixes delivering Remcos and wiper malware have been observed, with threats also targeting Israeli organizations.
– Numerous domains related to CrowdStrike have been registered and could be used for hosting phishing pages, scams, and malware.
– McAfee reported various scams including phishing attacks and cybercrooks impersonating banks and retailers.
– Government agencies like UK’s NCSC and US’s CISA have issued alerts warning of phishing and malicious activity referencing the outage.
– The bad CrowdStrike update caused major outages across industries such as aviation, financial, healthcare, and education.
– Microsoft noted that 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide were impacted by the update, representing less than one percent of systems.
– The incident had little to no impact in countries like China and Russia, possibly due to their limited use of American products.
The meeting notes captured the widespread impact of the CrowdStrike incident, the ensuing malicious activities, and the measures being taken by organizations and government agencies to address the situation.