CrowdStrike 'Updates' Deliver Malware and More as Attacks Snowball

Cybercriminals are using last week's CrowdStrike outage as a vehicle for social engineering attacks against the security vendor's customers.

In the hours after the event that grounded planes, shuttered stores, closed down medical facilities, and more, national cybersecurity agencies in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia all reported follow-on phishing activity by petty criminals. That much is to be expected after any national news event. But, says BforeAI CEO Luigi Lenguito, these post-CrowdStrike attacks are both more copious and more targeted than those typically seen after major media stories.

For reference, "in the attack last week on Trump, we saw a spike on the first day of 200 [related cyber threats] and then it flattened to 40, 50 a day," he says. "Here, you're looking at a spike that is three times as big. We're seeing about 150 to 300 attacks per day. I would say this is not the normal volume for news-related attacks."

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