This article has been sourced from the National Cyber Security Center.
An IT outage following an update made by CrowdStrike software has caused significant disruption globally.
This update resulted in outages in windows systems.
The issue has been identified, isolated and the vendor has released remediation guidance for customers, available via their CrowdStrike Customer Portal which will be updated as the situation evolves.
We encourage New Zealand organisations that have been impacted by this disruption to review the guidance issued by the vendor and act immediately.
The NCSC has no information to indicate these issues are related to malicious cyber security activity.
However, there has been an observed increase in phishing referencing this outage as opportunistic malicious cyber actors seek to take advantage of the situation.
We encourage organisations and individuals to be alert to this increased activity. Helpful resources to protect against phishing are available below.
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