Posted on 07/19/2024 1:10:25 AM PDT by ifinnegan
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround icon Simon Sharwood Fri 19 Jul 2024 // 06:46 UTC UPDATED An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows.
The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10 PCs crashing, displaying the Blue Screen of Death, then being unable to reboot.
“We're seeing BSOD Org wide that are being caused by csagent.sys, and it's taking down critical services. I'll open a ticket, but this is a big deal,” wrote one user.
Forums report that Crowdstrike has issued an advisory with a URL that includes the text "Tech-Alert-Windows-crashes-related-to-Falcon-Sensor-2024-07-19" – but it's behind a regwall that only customers can access.
Hilary is getting desperate.
The fix such as it is:
Workaround Steps:
Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
Boot the host normally.
This is hilarious.
That’s one way to look at it.
Not for me. I work for a large hotel company and our software is affected
It seems a lot of things are affected.
🚨ALERT MAJOR CYBER ATTACK WORLDWIDE 🚨
https://youtu.be/g7NJ3d8D2i4?si=TBWNuScU5MntKe9C
How many people stuck in Milwaukee ?
My whole hospital went down. I just got paged to go to downtime systems, which...now don’t work, but are starting to come back on.
Not so goddamn funny when you have a stroke and the CT scanner won’t function.
This is a Microsoft Azure issue.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to snap at you.
I’m on my way in to the hospital where I work- any word on a fix or when it will be resolved?
Printed that info out just in case. I see that I don’t have crowdstrike on my Windows 10 laptop. I figure that must be something the user installs.
That’d certainly be true.
No worries. I’m sure it’s a big deal to a lot of people right now. In fact I know it is. I’m watching it play out in front of me in real time.
See post 3.
Luckily, the brewery that I’m working at right now is still up and running.
Have no fear!
Still making BEER!
We are coming back online. Apparently, there was a world-wide Epic downtime.
Good luck to you.
We have Epic back online and have downtime systems running too.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.