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Windows 10 users around the world, including airports, banks and broadcasters, suffered serious failures on Friday, triggered by a recent update of the web/cloud-based CrowdStrike antivirus platform. Problems have been reported in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, Spain, the US, and several other countries.
According to the Russian ministry's press office, "so far, there have been no reports of crashes at Russian airports," as quoted by TASS.
"The situation with Microsoft once again demonstrates the significance of import substitution of foreign software, first of all - at critical information infrastructure facilities," officials added.
The Russian government resolved to lessen the country's dependence on foreign technologies and goods in 2014, after Western nations imposed sanctions on Moscow over Crimea. With more restrictions put in place following the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Moscow has doubled down on these efforts.
The BBC, citing aviation analytics firm Cirium, claimed that more than 1,000 flights have been canceled globally due to the outage, with the figure expected to rise. In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has grounded all flights by several major airlines, including Delta, United, and American Airlines.
The Irish carrier Ryanair as well as Turkish Airlines have said they are experiencing problems with ticketing, check-in, and reservation processes.
The massive glitch has also crippled several media outlets, including the UK-based Sky News - which went off air - as well as the Australia-based ABC, SBS, Channel 7, Channel 9, and News Corp Australia.
Meanwhile, George Kurtz, the CEO of Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is largely being blamed for the situation, has said that the "issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed."
Microsoft 365, which includes a range of popular products such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, has stated that it "continue[s] to take mitigation actions" to address the outage.
Reader Comments
How dare they! Showing a message to the west, that everything in Russia is not affected and no cyber threats were detected to close down systems of banking and air travel, it is possible even more we are yet to discover.
Is it Russia!...Get real! Infrastructure of the countries of the West. The political, social and physical crumbling under the feet of the Western behemoth called 'democracy for all'
I agree windows 7 was the best, user friendly with a human touch...Not allowed in the AI universe.
I Now hate everything to do with computers with a passion I can barely express. Online 'interaction' repels me. It makes me want to scream.
I am now a carpenter and general handyman. Much poorer, but very thankful I don't sit in front of a terminal at a desk, screaming with rage at the screen in a sterile office, with inhumans for company
Based on this recent review of Crowdstrike. they are part of the globalist psychopath technology, and probably will be connected to the "cyberpandemic" that Klaus said is coming. [Link]