The outages Friday were connected to 'a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,' CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a statement.
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Austin, Texas, is linked to the Microsoft outage affecting airlines, banks and other businesses worldwide on Friday.The company provides antivirus software to Microsoft for its Windows devices, and many industries globally — from banking to retail to health care — use the company's software to protect against breaches and hackers.
It describes itself as 'a leader in protecting customers around the world from cyber threats' and said 'it is common for organizations to hire third-party industry experts, like CrowdStrike, to investigate and remediate cyber attacks when they suspect a breach even if they are collaborating with law enforcement.'The firm investigated the Russian hack on Democratic National Committee computers in 2016, and it says it has also tracked North Korean hackers for years.
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