Breach

The faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update resulting in the widespread global IT outage that disrupted nearly 8.5 million Windows systems last week had been missed due to a vulnerability in the firm's Content Validator tool.

AT&T Mobility's widespread network outage in February that disrupted 125 million devices stemmed from a network misconfiguration by an employee and also from inadequate best practices adherence, according to the US FCC.

Latin America-based threat operations FLUXROOT and PINEAPPLE have launched Intrusions exploiting Google Cloud infrastructure.

Threat actors immediately launched attacks with malicious payloads to exploit the faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update that resulted in a massive global IT outage.