Cyber security company CrowdStrike suffered a major outage, the company announced to NBC, affecting the entire globe.
The outage was caused by problems with the latest update, the company announced. CrowdStrike is now in the process of rolling back the update.
The confirmation came after numerous reports of technical problems around the world, writes cnbc.
Microsoft announced earlier Friday that cloud services were largely back after an outage that affected its applications in the US. It is not clear if this outage was related to the CrowdStrike update.
However, the CrowdStrike update issue appears to have directly affected Windows systems around the world, with laptops experiencing what is known as the “blue screen of death”.
“CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts connected to the Falcon Sensor,” CrowdStrike said in a recorded phone message.
Airlines, broadcasters, telecom companies and banks were among the many businesses that reported problems on Friday, although it was not immediately clear what was causing each problem.
