Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all manner of creeps
Well that was fast. Criminals didn't waste any time taking advantage of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos and quickly got to work phishing organizations and spinning up malicious domains purporting to be fixes.shut down Windows machines around the globe, reports surfaced of scam emails using the outage as a lure and otherwise trying to use the massive outage as a means to pursue criminal activities.
"Some reports we have seen indicate that there may be phishing emails circulating claiming to come from 'CrowdStrike Support' or"CrowdStrike Security,"While he did not have any samples to share at the time,"attackers are likely leveraging the heavy media attention," Ullrich added."Please be careful with any 'patches' that may be delivered this way.
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