I have never heard of crowdstrike. Is that some kind of antivirus? How is that related to PCs not booting? And why does it affect so many PCs if I've never heard of it? I'm so confused
It's unlikely you'd have heard of it unless you've worked at a large enterprise that runs primarily Microsoft IT.
Crowdstrike does have Mac/Linux "endpoints" also (IIRC) but I'm unsure if they're affected as well.
The problem seems to be in a device driver installed by Crowdstrike - so I'm guessing whatever the bug is, it's specific. to their Windows product.
This looks suspiciosly a case of "let's download random crap from the web and run it in kernel space. what could possibly go wrong?"
The Windows claim is a little misleading. We used Linux where I last encountered this. I expect Windows is where problems are manifesting this time; BSOD and kernel panics with this aren't new!
CrowdStrike seemingly came out of nowhere but has existed for a while... I think it's suspicious.
Have we not learned from SolarWinds and company? The vendors become part of your posture. Consolidating far too much
We have this crap running on our computers, and only Windows boxes seem affected.
On Linux this isn't running in kernel mode (our kernels are too up-to-date) and we don't seem to have any issue there.
Haven't heard anything about macs though.