A massive system outage disrupted systems around the world, grounding flights, disrupting health care, transport and logistics, banking services and critical infrastructure.
The issue hit computers running Microsoft Windows operating system and CrowdStrike software.
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” the company said in a release.
“We’re working around the clock and providing ongoing updates and support. Additionally, CrowdStrike has helped us develop a scalable solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix for CrowdStrike’s faulty update,” Microsoft said in a blog post authored by David Weston, vice president, Enterprise and OS Security.
The outage was only limited to computers running Microsoft’s operating system.
Machines running Mac and Linux system software have not been affected, according to CrowdStrike.