Alleged Anonymous Sudan leaders charged, prolific gang’s tool disabled

A criminal complaint says the group jeopardized lives via DDoS attack, with 35,000 attacks since the beginning of 2023.

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CrowdStrike exec apologizes in front of Congress over huge global IT outage

House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.

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CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes

CrowdStrike says it has revamped several testing, validation, and update rollout processes to prevent a repeat of the July BSOD incident.
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Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage

More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber resilience – and sometimes that means changing cybersecurity providers. T… Continue reading Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage

Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel

Microsoft is revamping how anti-malware tools interact with the Windows kernel to avoid another CrowdStrike faulty update catastrophe. 
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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

A cyberattack that shut down some of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023: It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that made-for-Hollywood narrative has eclipsed a far more hideous trend: Many of these young, Western cybercriminals are also members of fast-growing online groups that exist solely to bully, stalk, harass and extort vulnerable teens into physically harming themselves and others. Continue reading The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

CrowdStrike Estimates the Tech Meltdown Caused by Its Bungling Left a $60 Million Dent in Its Sales

Massive outage spooked customers that had been expected to close deals totaling $60 million during the final few weeks of CrowdStrike’s fiscal Q2.
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Microsoft Convenes Endpoint Security Firms Following CrowdStrike Incident

Microsoft has called together cybersecurity firms and government representatives for its Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit.
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