The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the company’s Falcon monitoring platform that bricked Windows computers running the product. Fallout from the incident will take days to resolve, and the company is warning that, as system administrators and IT staff work on remediation, another threat is looming: predatory digital scams attempting to capitalize on the crisis.
Researchers on Friday afternoon began warning that attackers are reserving domain names and starting to spin up websites and other infrastructure to run âCrowdStrike Supportâ scams targeting the company’s customers and anyone who might be impacted by the chaos. CrowdStrike’s own researchers also warned about the activity on Friday and published a list of domains seemingly registered to impersonate the company.
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