‘𝕎𝕖 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕕 ℂ𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕕𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕤𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕞𝕤’ – 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕜

The antivirus platform has acknowledged that a bug in an update was to blame for Friday’s global Windows 10 outage

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that his companies stopped using web/cloud-based antivirus platform CrowdStrike in the wake of Friday’s global Windows 10 outage. The cyber-security firm has admitted that the massive failures were caused by a recent update that conflicted with Microsoft systems.

The IT meltdown affected Windows 10 users around the world, including airports, banks, and broadcasters. According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, at least 4,295 flights were grounded globally due to the outage. The worldwide glitch also hit a number of media outlets, including the UK-based Sky News – which went off the air for a while – as well as the Australian-based ABC, SBS, Channel 7, Channel 9, and News Corp Australia.

Responding to a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, Musk wrote: “We just deleted Crowdstrike from all our systems.”

🚨 BREAKING: CROWDSTRIKE AND MICROSOFT SHARES PLUNGE AFTER GLOBAL IT OUTAGE

A failed antivirus update causing a global IT outage has locked users out of Windows PCs, leading to a sharp decline in shares of both companies.

CrowdStrike stock dropped by 14.08% at 09:27 a.m. London… pic.twitter.com/VguMrDXo8r

— 𝕏 (@AlertChannel) July 19, 2024

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