A bug in the CrowdStrike platform causes Microsoft to go down and global incidents in banks and airlines

July 19 (Portaltic/EP) –

Microsoft has suffered a outage in its services due to a failure in an update of the CrowdStrike cybersecurity platformwhich has caused multiple incidents in different services globally, including banks, airlines and media outlets.

The problem has been picked up on the outage monitoring website Downdetector and from the Microsoft Azure status pagewhere the company has detailed that problems with the technology services began to occur during the night of July 18 in the United Statesspecifically at around 12 noon, peninsular time.

These problems include failures in service management operations and in the connectivity or availability of company servicesMicrosoft has said. However, the company has also said that they are aware of the problem and that they have involved several teams to mitigate the failure.

As they explained, in the case of Microsoft Azure, they have identified that a back-end cluster management workflow implemented a configuration change that caused back-end access to be blocked between a subset of Azure Storage clusters and computing resources in the central US region. This caused computing resources to automatically restart when connectivity to virtual disks was lost.

However, Microsoft has added that the Most services have “already recovered” and that the remaining subsets of services that “still experience a residual impact” will be resolved.

Despite all this, the Widespread Microsoft services outage blamed on Crowdstrike antivirus platformwhich is a Microsoft provider service, and as it has notified through an alert on its platform, has suffered a failure caused by an update.

According to Crowdstrike in the notification, published this Friday around 8 a.m. and shared by some users on X, This is a fault that can cause “a blue screen or bugcheck error related to the Falcon sensor.” The latter is a software designed to prevent cyber attacks on computer systems.

Later, the company issued another alert in which it explained that the The update that caused the problem has now been identified and reverted.The technology company has also shared an alternative solution for customers who are having problems with its Crowdstrike service and has recommended that customers restore your data from a previous backup.

Although the problem has started in the United States, airports, airlines, media and banks in several countriesincluding Spain, have also reported the failure. Specifically, companies such as AENA, RyanairAir Europa, Vueling, Iberia, Sky News, Europa Press and Bizumamong other.