Microsoft Outage: IT Ministry issues advisory, says problem related to recent update in product

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on Friday issued advisory after system at several global and Indian airlines, banks and other institutions faced sharp disruptions owing to an outage caused in Microsoft products.

“It has been reported that Windows hosts related to Crowd strike agent Falcon Sensor, are facing outages and getting crashed due to recent update received in the product. The concerned Windows hosts are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), related to Falcon Sensor. The issues occurred in the latest update of CrowdStrike and the changes have been reverted by the CrowdStrike Team,” the ministry agency said in its advisory.