Australia's Microsoft outage, Crowdstrike crisis
A massive global Microsoft outage has hammered Australian businesses including Woolworths, Qantas, the ABC and Foxtel, 7-Eleven - with computers around the country repeatedly crashing and displaying the 'blue screen of death'.
The country was struck by an unprecedented cyber event at about 3pm on Friday, with at least 48 Australian services suffering outages, according to the Down Detector website on Friday afternoon.
The outage is believed to have been caused by Crowdstrike security software which caused computers to crash, with users posting photos of the chaos on the online platforms that were still available.
DNC Hack, Russia connection
CrowdStrike behind the DNC Hack, Seth Rich data intercepted
Q is implying that CrowdStrike manipulates source, can do foreign intercepts, tracee 'break-in' routes, bulk data connection & frame an intended target as the intruder by inserting/layering code.
WHO DID THEY PROVIDE COVER FOR?
HOW FAR BACK DID IT GO?
Ukraine Connection
Shawn Henry CEO of CrowdStrike.
Before this, Shawn Henry Named Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Division by none other than Robert Mueller
Trump brought up CrowdStrike in call to Zelenksy that got him impeached.
Mainstream ran mocking campaign using Articles like this to discredit any connection between CrowdStrike and Ukraine.
Trump's call was not about investigating Joe. It was about uncovering the origins of the Russia Hoax.
This article explains the deeper connections between Obama's State Dept, Ukrainian coup, CrowdStrike and all the same players behind these.
Assange Connection.
Everybody here knows Assange - Seth Rich - DNC Server connection. The fact that Assange was recently freed and now CrowdStrike is in the headlines cannot be coincidence.
Prediction:
I think Seth Rich / RussiaGate etc will come front and center soon.
There is a Sep delta with just one line - "Seth Rich". This is where we are headed perhaps?
There is also a July 28 delta for Awan (who is connected to House Server hacks, that happened parallel to DNC server hacks)
https://operationq.pub/?n=3532
And more importantly Awan is connected to "Saving Israel for Last"
And Awan is also connected to Clinton Foundation:
https://operationq.pub/?n=3125
Looks like everything is converging.
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You know, back in the Bernie days, I remember seeing a copy of a ledger where large sum payments ($100,000+) were going to or from Crowdstrike lining up with assassinations, Seth RIch, Shawn Lucus, etc etc. As if it was some sort of payment to hit men.
As I said before the Bernie movement was more an anti Hillary movement than anything else (& invisible govt) It became apparent to some of us what a mafia they are. (And many moved on to Trump after that fiasco) But the point is that there's some sort of financial connection between assassination payments & Crowdstrike. Now I realize that they are also some sort of international bank & stock payment center or something.
I use WinAero Tweaker on a number of my systems to take control over Windoes Updates and other things....
Not sure about you, but many times I'll leave work open and walk away....only to find that the PC restarted itself, lost all my work and lost webpages I was not done reading (and didn't bookmark) etc....Yeah I know I could get back via history etc, but that's not the point....F-you and your updates. MY PC I'll update it when I damned well please...
I feel that EXACT way about the phone updates. What if I DONT WANT it updated?
Good advice. ShutUp10 is nice as well as just disabling the service. Also can use custom builds that remove a lot of this stuff like https://windowsxlite.com/24H2/
Thoughts on an intentional distraction? The timing on this glitch smells suspicious to me.
I talked to my broker today & he told me their system is down because Crowdstrike was down & that they handle much of the info exchange between brokers & also, banks, airports & TV's They told me it was an internal system error on Crowdstrikes behalf, that it wasn't an attack but more like a bug in their system
I'm like: yeah right, it's the white hats testing things out to get ready for that big day
I looked up Crowdstrike and there is an article about this outage in CNN. They say the CEO of Crowdstrike is George Kurtz, who said the outage was an error and not malicious. They also say Crowdstrike is a very big computer cyber security company and does work for govt and large corps. But they are known for calling out Russian hacking of DNC during 2016 elections. Unsurprisingly CNN ends by saying that US intelligence agencies confirmed their Russian hacking assessment.
Question could someone hack crowdstrike and jack with their program to make this happen? Mcaffee???
Somebody posted last week Durham was recently spotted in relation to a guilty plea from ms13 leader.
https://greatawakening.win/p/17te9jf8wT/assistant-united-states-attorney/c/
Great timing for Seth Rich and crowdstrike to pop up as well because I'm not sure if any things had been unsealed since sussman was appearingly acquitted a couple years ago.
Also, trump in his speech last night talked about crossing the Delaware and we know that reference as well.
Sorry if someone shared all this I don't have time to read through this whole thread right now.
Incoming "Just use Linux"
Sorry, I don't have enough time in my day to dedicate to getting basic functionality out of my OS. Blah blah new ones do the same stuff as windows blah blah
If you're running Windows go to Settings>Windows Update and pause your updates for up to 5 weeks.
Maybe they're shutting down banks and airlines so the underlings of the cabal can't abandon ship??
Would be funny if the code that took down the world was stored on a microSD kept in the collar of Julian Assange's cat Michi
u/#catdance
Like this cat...
unlock code for vault 47 is Michi's microchip ID
Don't get crowdfagged.
People who get BSOD'd by this update are crowdfagged
Your job today is to post crying cats in front of blue screens with caption 'I haz been crowdfagged"
and at the bottom it says "download linux"
Because the Linux fanboying is mandatory whenever computers are brought up.
necroposting : "affirmative"
Soy sounds I run Arch Linux on my microwave and it gets 100 more FPS then when Windows ran on it. Tips Fedora
another White Hat operation. Just like the faux Trump Assassin show.
Evidence? No death and destruction. Also, Roaring Kitty posted about the "Code Red" and who ordered it. This is a necessary step to achieve something.
Until Trump himself tells us that it was a white hat operation, the assassination attempt was VERY REAL
And Trump has the goods. He said "I'm not supposed to be here tonight" because he KNOWS what happened
Assassination was NOT staged, nobody is so good as to clip a target the size of someones ear, on a moving target, at 100+ yards
You guys can keep going along with it, that's totally fine and good (required for the full effect of the operation) however I believe with full conviction that it was staged and I will continue to do so so long as that is what the evidence leads me to believe.
However, I'll try and go along to get along 'round these parts, just so we are on the same page without arguing or bickering over the nuances of things.
What is your evidence that the shooting was "faux" ?
I agreed.
“ Just like the faux Trump Assassin show “
Are we talking here about the Joy Reid version of the attempt on Trump’s life ??
Read up
Flights grounded across the country. Just made me wonder if that nice rendition of Nessun Dorma last night at the RNC after Trump spoke spooked some of the DS players who then tried to make a run for it. An anon can dream...
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/19/tech/microsoft-cloud-outage-causes-airlines-to-ground-flights/
Damn. I missed this.
Use this tool to disable all updates. https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
This is the fix to get your pcs up and running for the time being!!
Thank you! Thank God I have auto updates shut off.
I still find this whole thing actually hilarious, but good to posting here.
They've certainly worsened people's trust even further in updating shortly after deployment.
huh.. lookup q post 291
HRC
Would have been possible for one of those laid off DEI people to have activated some sort of back door...
It's not just Australia.
Op is probably Australian.
Yes, true. But this is now the mega thread where all of the outage discussions are being directed to.
Hurray
work sucks anyway
I'm lucky, I guess, and my work computer itself didn't get hit. Other coworkers did. However, it's knocked out our entire intranet, so no network drives or internal programs. Not a whole lot I can do anyways.
Q1440
The gun.
The shot heard around the world.
Now everything is blacking out.
https://qalerts.app/?q=%23%231440
https://qagg.news/?read=1440
u/#q1440
Shot heard around the world -
https://qagg.news/?read=572
u/#q572
And this one is awesome - https://qagg.news/?read=659
u/#q659
Thanks for adding the images.. 👍
Welcome fren 😊
Could this be kicking off “ten days. darnkess”?
It started Tuesday btw
Correct. Effected EU first. Saw it on the outage map
We are here 👀 next we mooning..
Notable
As with everything, time will tell. But it seems like things could be lining up...
Every time I see anything with Crowdstrike in the message popup on the corporate PC, I wonder if that's going to be trouble sometime in the future.
i.e. Crowdstrike security scan running or Crowdstrike SW update complete, etc
Is this outage nothing more than a distraction so that people don't talk about President Trumps speech?
Why not? It's a pretty big distraction, haha. Double duty as keeping people from talking about the assassination attempt too.
Oh my. I am trying very hard to not get excited, but bullet heard round the world. Mirrors. David's modern rock? So simple only God could do it.
My friend works at a Fifth Third Bank here in SE MI and she just sent me a picture of her BSOD, the bank is currently closed until it gets resolved
Its scary how little control most businesses have if their computers fail to boot. Not like the olden days when things were not centrally managed.
There is still a Woolworths in Australia?!!!! Awesome!!
Hahaha! I thought the same thing!
They used to be called Safeway and 10-15 years ago they rebranded them as Woolworths.
They were Woolworths when I was a kid (60's-70's) EDIT: Anon below explained the Woolworth's in the USA isn't the same company. 😁
Yeah a lot of people were nostalgic when the name changed back. I came here much later, and for me Safeway reminded me of the US chain when I was living there, so I was kinda sad.
It's 💩 Pushed the jab bad And then wouldn't sell any Aussie stuff eg flags for Australia day
Its not the same as Woolworth in the US was. Its a grocery store.
Oooh ok - thank you!
Ahh, I was going to say. My mom used to take us to Woolworths and it was awesome as a little kid.
And stay out of the Woolsworth!
Never not think of O Brother when I hear that name
Great movie....shame Clooney is such a turd.
One of my hubby’s favorite movies. Clooney is a pedophile.
I remember the USA election theft through Italy people were asking who the bald man pictured was I said it looked like Shawn Henry. He had the know how to run the election software through those satellites
Interesting.
I wonder if Australia is freed. I remember it was also made into a corporation? Did they get out from under their controllers?
They gave Dan Andrews an order of australia medal a few months back so it seems unlikely.
I’m just reading something picked up on Telegram that the CFMEU was controlled by Bill Shorten who in turn is funded by Soros which would mean that that faction of the Labor Party is being shutdown and dissolved also earlier in the week there was a change of guard in defence with Air Chief Marshal Angus Campbell standing down and is being replaced by Admiral David Johnstone , looks like the white hats are finally making their move down under.
Makes sense to me. I see that Banks are affected (freezing assets) Planes (they can't escape), Amazon is affected ( CIA ). I'm thinking " It's going down!!!"
We are supposed to have a constitutional convention according to Riccordo Bosi. I think we are holding the line until precipice. Pretty much everyone in the world is, at this point.
A week to remember indeed
In Australia. Managed to buy Ice cream and chocolate at Woolies, with my card. Wet & windy outside, loving the forum action this evening.
We hit IGA about 4.30pm and all worked fine thankfully
So did you see a lot of checkout registers dead? I went to coles today and all was well.
Something was happening at Walgreens. Went to pick up prescriptions and the pharmacy was closed with a sign that said “closed. Hopefully we will be open tomorrow.”
I know that a local KFC was systems down....
Kentucky Halfway Fried Chicken
Yes, half the self serve checkouts were the BSoH.
I hope this helps. These are some of my old digs on Crowdstrike:
https://greatawakening.win/p/142AwK6c9Q/the-founders-of-crowdstrike/c/
Founders of crowdstrike.
https://greatawakening.win/p/141ra9mUpG/rodney-joffe-was-john-no-name-mc/c/
No Name:
https://greatawakening.win/p/141ra9mUpG/rodney-joffe-was-john-no-name-mc/c/
And don't forget Alexandra:
https://greatawakening.win/p/142B0wCd6Y/who-is-alexandra-/c/
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/932821531096469504.html
Warburg… Warburg… Warburg…
“Now why does that name ring a bell?”
Eat a bag of dicks, Geithner, and not with your butt this time.
Hell's Bells are the sound I hear with "Warburg".
I’m sorry that I’ve been a bit irritated this week. I do try not to be profane on here, but damn these people!
No problem. Here in Germany Warburg bank in Hamburg is involved in the CumEx/Wirecard-Scandal of our not-so-beloved Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz.
And as you know the Warburg faminly has a lot of intertwining with history, not only often for Germany, but also a lot for the US and the whole world. It is easy to hate them, we all want to abolish the FED-Matrix.
Could this be the cyberpandemic the World Economic Forum said was going to happen?
The timing is definitely suss.
Something to consider is the timing. If the intent was evil, if it was a pedo death cult op, why today and not before Trump was scheduled to speak at the RNC? So the question in my mind is was Crowdstrike coopted by the Patriots and this is a WH op?
I'd get out of Baltimore. Remember the bridge?
When searching on X earlier for crowd strike, heaps of non-outage posts came up too.
Timing-wise, this stinks of a distraction when Cabal is in deep trouble. Biden Harris cat-fighting each other, Trump accepting nomination with a MAGA VP.
However, WHs might have rigged something so that when CrowdStrike tried to do some shenanigans (perhaps targeted at some WH infrastructure) it instead backfired into a huge blowback.
I get the sentiment, but I really hope our WHs aren't that dumb. Taking out CrowdStrike like that could actually get people killed. 911 was down in a lot of places all around the US, as were many hospital systems. I hold out hope that our WHs are tech-savvy enough to know what their actions would do.
A few short years ago it would've still been bad, but CS wasn't as prevalent in OT systems (the ones that control manufacturing and critical infrastructure like power, refining, agriculture, and other critical systems) as it is now. I wonder if we are getting an accurate picture of things that went down, or if the really critical stuff is not being publicized yet.
Its also possible that this is a way to force CrowdStrike to rollback whatever malicious code they have been pushing into the computers managed by them
Theres outages all over. In airports, railroads, stock markets, etc. Anything that use intenret. Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline following a mass global outage.
The outage appears to be affecting Windows PCs globally
Carolyn Burgess: Planes have been grounded and TV broadcasters have gone offline as businesses worldwide grapple with an ongoing major IT outage.
Earlier on Friday, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike experienced a major disruption, the company told NBC, following an issue with its latest tech update. The company is currently rolling up said update globally.
Separately, Microsoft cloud services were restored after an outage, the company said on Friday, even as many users continued to report issues.
Shares of both companies were losing ground in premarket trading on Friday morning.
7 MIN AGO Air travel passengers warned of delays Airports and airlines have been issuing advice to passengers as the global IT issues hit their systems, with many warning of delays.
London’s Gatwick Airport confirmed it began experiencing issues “early this morning” which were affecting “some airlines’ check-in systems, baggage and security, including eGates.”
“We are using our backup process, but some passengers may experience delays while checking in and passing through security. Passengers should still arrive for their normal check-in time, which is typically two hours ahead of the flight time for short-haul, and three hours for long-haul,” the airport said in a statement.
Australia’s Qantas said its flights were still operating with some delays.
Air New Zealand said it was dealing with a high number of customer calls and advised people to only contact customer service agents if they were due to fly within the next 48 hours. It said some customers would be experiencing payment issues, if they are customers of impacted banks.
Cathay Pacific said at 2:45 p.m. Hong Kong time (2:45 a.m. ET) that self-service check-in facilities at Hong Kong International Airport were not working.
“We ask all customers to check in online via our website or mobile app and obtain their mobile boarding pass before coming to the airport,” the airline said. It also advised that its flight booking service is currently unavailable.
— Jenni Reid
6 MIN AGO Sky News temporarily unable to broadcast Television channel Sky News was temporarily unable to broadcast live this morning, citing a “global technical issue.”
David Rhodes, executive chairman of Sky News Group, said shortly after 9 a.m. London time that live broadcasting had been restored, but “without full capabilities.”
Sky News and CNBC’s parent organization, NBCUniversal, are both owned by Comcast.
— Jenni Reid
The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM said Friday it has been forced to suspend “most” of its operation due to a global computer outage.
The outage has made it “impossible to handle flights,” KLM said in a statement. “We realize that, especially given the summer vacations, this is extremely inconvenient for our customers. We are working hard to resolve the problem.”
Earlier Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport said a “global system failure at Microsoft” had disrupted flights to and from the airport.
35 MIN AGO Microsoft says services ‘continuing to see improvements’ In an update at 8:55 a.m. U.K. time (3:55 a.m. ET), Microsoft 365 said on social platform X that “multiple services are continuing to see improvements in availability as our mitigation actions progress.”
According to a Microsoft web page tracking the status of its services, “users may be unable to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services.” Issues are affecting apps including Microsoft Fabric, Teams, Purview, Defender, SharePoint and OneNote, according to the tracker.
— Jenni Reid
36 MIN AGO CrowdStrike, Microsoft shares lose ground Shares of tech titans CrowdStrike and Microsoft were losing ground in premarket trading, after both reported significant outages that rippled across businesses worldwide.
CrowdStrike stock was down 14.08% at 09:27 a.m. London time, with Microsoft shares lower by 2.12%.
— Ruxandra Iordache
London Stock Exchange Group on Friday said it is investigating technical issues after it was hit by a global IT outage affecting its pricing data and news communications.
In a notice on its website, LSEG said that it is “currently experiencing a 3rd party global technical issue, preventing news from being published on www.londonstockexchange.com.”
“Technical teams are working to restore the service. Other services across the Group, including London Stock Exchange continue to operate as normal,” the exchange group added.
LSEG’s Eikon data platform was also affected by technical issues Friday morning.
When logging into the platform, a notice at the top of the site reads: “We’re sorry for the inconvenience. You will need to restart workspace. If you need help, please contact us.”
LSEG was not immediately available to provide a comment when contacted by CNBC Friday.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, impacting businesses globally.
The outage resulted from an issue with the latest update, the company said. CrowdStrike is now in the process of rolling back that update globally.
— Katrina Bishop
1 HOUR AGO Microsoft reports disruption Microsoft’s cloud services have been restored after suffering an outage, the company said on Friday.
The U.S. tech giant said late on Thursday that customers in the Central U.S. region may experience issues with multiple Azure services and its Microsoft 365 suite of apps. This could include “failures with service management operations and connectivity or availability of services.”
On Friday, Microsoft said it determined the underlying cause and the majority of services were recovered. However, the company said that some customers may still experience issues in the region.
“A small subset of services is still experiencing residual impact,” Microsoft said.
— Arjun Kharpal
Great now Down Detector website shows the biggest companies using Crowdstrike. Expect isolated attacks on those specific companies. BHs just got a devining rod.
I have always dreamt of this day ever since I started hating Microsoft like 3 decades ago.
I KNOW EXACTLY what you are feeling...I've had to use Microsoft since Windows 1.0 then 3.1!!!!!
I used to be a huge fan of PCDOS and MSDOC. But when Windows 1.0 came, I puked. And I have been puking every new release
Imagine being a redpilled developer who just hasn’t shifted off of it (yet).
Right there with you.
Im on my way out the door here in a sec but go to Conservative Treehouse archives for some deep dives on Crowdstrike.
work in cyber/netsec, but don’t work Fridays…today’ll be fun to watch from the sidelines 😎
Curious timing, nice way to divert attention from Trump’s speech tonight and the Dem dumpster fire…
I haven't slept. Went to lay my head down and got paged. Been up since 😭
Yeah timing of Trump's acceptance speech is not coincidence.
It can't be coincidence.
No way. An update causing a BSoD would never ever survive the first stage of testing and nobody can tell me Crowdstrike doesn't test their patches. This was on purpose, WH or BH move, I don't know, but it wasn't just a mistake.
This is caused by automated testing, and no actual human QA. This will happen more often because even QA teams now want to automate their tests.
Without approval of the testing results by someone in QA? Hm. I have doubts, but could be the cause. Funny enough Azure had massive issues as well, that's too much of a coinkidink for me.