The CrowdStrike cyber event affected 8.5 million Windows machines and was the biggest IT outage in history. It has “beaten” even the cyber attacks of WannaCry and NotPetya.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3zgznwjno

Can/will this method be used by hackers? What would they need to do to take advantage of that vulnerability?

EDIT: typo

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    malicious actors rarely look to take down IT resources as their goal

    Could be a hostile government sponsored group or idealists (Microsoft has more haters than fans) or simply someone could do it just because they can - if they could. Some men just want to see the world burn.

    • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      They could also DDOS essentially anything with root access to that many devices.

      Its like taking all the armies guns to throw them in a volcano ‘cause you want to see the world burn’