Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams

CrowdStrike is warning that scammers are exploiting the global outage caused by its faulty Falcon software update, which crashed Windows computers running the product on Friday. Researchers began seeing attackers reserve domain names and build websites for fake "CrowdStrike Support" scams aimed at customers and others affected by the chaos. Attackers have been sending phishing emails, making impersonation phone calls, and selling software tools that claim to automate recovery, while some falsely claim the outage was a cyberattack. CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz urged people to deal only with official representatives, and Brett Callow of FTI Consulting said customers should be prepared for such exploitation.