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

  • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    3 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’