It's enterprise anti-malware that [in addition to other bits] has a client component installed on all PCs in the corporate network. An update to that client component (called an "endpoint") is causing those Windows machines to BSOD.

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.

I've never seen a non-Windows machine tbh. But our IT just send out an update that we don't use crowdstrike. Strange that I never heard of it if it's so widespread. But thanks

You see it more in highly regulated areas. We ran mostly Linux at the last place we used it. Existed solely to check a box.

Company 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. All of us leaning on the same vendors consolidates far too much

My company MacBook with the falcon client does not seem to be affected by this.

The problem is seemingly specifically in the Windows driver, you're unlikely to see an issue if you're not running Windows.

MacOS does not allow kernel extensions anymore so these kinds of crashes cannot happen. The falcon client on Mac hooks into another layer

>Crowdstrike does have Mac/Linux "endpoints" also (IIRC) but I'm unsure if they're affected as well.

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.

MacOS seems to be fine (or I was too late to get an update)

MacOS does not allow kernel extensions anymore luckily

> 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.

Windows complains about some page fault or something in a file name csagent.sys. On my machine this file hasn't changed in several days, but the issue only happened this morning like for everyone else.

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?"

They make security software that is really popular in various industries.

They make malware that steals funds from corporations (willingly!) so these corps can tick a security checkbox for some certification investors have been told is paramount; it's just disguised as security software.

So in other words, they make "security" software just like any other security software company.

Baffling name. Sounds more apt for a DDoS service.