Blue Screen nightmare: Crowdstrike update crashes Windows, grounds flights, cripples businesses

A major software update from cybersecurity company Crowdstrike has triggered a global outage, causing widespread disruption for Windows users, businesses, and even airports.

The issue, linked to Crowdstrike’s Falcon sensor, has resulted in Windows machines experiencing blue screen errors and getting stuck in a recovery loop. Crowdstrike has acknowledged the problem and assured users their engineers are working on a fix.