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SEC, DOJ investigate CrowdStrike deal with reseller Carahsoft – Computerworld
Vendor sales reps push hard to lock in revenue, typically tied to new product adoption, upgrades, or expanded usage, before closing their books, he said, “often dangling so-called ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ aggressive discounting to secure commitments.” Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, agreed. “Buyers have been conditioned by vendors who are publicly traded to strategically position deals at EOQ and…
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Why the CrowdStrike outage was a wakeup call for developer teams
Software development leaders say their organization did not have a robust incident response plan in place to contend with disruption before the 2024 CrowdStrike outage. A report from IT services provider Adaptavist surveyed development leaders on how their organization reacted to the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024, which affected an estimated 8.5 million devices. The respondents came from organizations with…
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Phishing campaign targets developers with fake CrowdStrike job offers
Developers are being targeted in a new phishing campaign using fake CrowdStrike job offers, the security company has warned. The firm noted that the campaign, first identified on 7 January, uses CrowdStrike’s recruitment branding to load crypto-mining malware onto the victim’s systems. The campaign begins with phishing emails purporting to be part of a recruitment process informing victims that they…
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Fake CrowdStrike job offer emails target devs with crypto miners
CrowdStrike is warning that a phishing campaign is impersonating the cybersecurity company in fake job offer emails to trick targets into infecting themselves with a Monero cryptocurrency miner (XMRig). The company discovered the malicious campaign on January 7, 2025, and based on the phishing email’s content, it likely didn’t start much earlier. The attack starts with a phishing email sent…
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IT leaders fear a repeat of the CrowdStrike outage in 2025
Almost nine-in-ten (88%) executives predict a major IT outage on the scale of the CrowdStrike incident within the next 12 months, according to research from PagerDuty. A majority in the UK. (91%), US (89%), Australia (88%), and Japan (78%) believe an outage is a foregone conclusion and not a matter of “if” but “when.” The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos when…
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CrowdStrike Survey Highlights Security Challenges in AI Adoption
Do the security benefits of generative AI outweigh the harms? Just 39% of security professionals say the rewards outweigh the risks, according to a new report by CrowdStrike. In 2024, CrowdStrike surveyed 1,022 security researchers and practitioners from the U.S., APAC, EMEA, and other regions. The findings revealed that cyber professionals are deeply concerned by the challenges associated with AI.…
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SonicWall and CrowdStrike team up to launch new MDR offering
SonicWall and CrowdStrike have teamed up to launch a new managed detection and response (MDR) offering designed to help MSPs equip SMBs with enterprise-grade security. The collaboration pairs SonicWall’s managed security services with the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform’s endpoint detection and response capabilities to create a scalable AI-native solution. In an announcement, SonicWall said the new MDR offering will help…
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CrowdStrike eyes SaaS security gains with Adaptive Shield acquisition
CrowdStrike has announced an agreement to acquire Israeli SaaS security startup Adaptive Shield to bolster the capabilities of its Falcon cybersecurity platform. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Adaptive Shield protects against SaaS breaches through security posture management and threat protection across SaaS identities, misconfigurations, and data. Announcing the move at its Fal.Con Europe event in Amsterdam, CrowdStrike said it will integrate…
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Westcon-Comstor bags major distribution deal with CrowdStrike
Westcon-Comstor has announced an expansion of its partnership with CrowdStrike that will see the firm distribute the CrowdStrike Falcon cyber security platform to channel partners in Ireland. Irish IT channel partners will now be able to access the AI-native Falcon platform to help drive vendor consolidation and bolster security, while leveraging the distributor’s value-added services across education, enablement, and data-driven…
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Delta sues CrowdStrike for $500 million in damages, claims “cutting corners” caused infamous July outage
Delta has made good on its promise to sue CrowdStrike after an update knocked the American airline’s systems offline, costing as much as $500 million. On July 19 2024, security company CrowdStrike rolled out an update to its Falcon detection system, but a flaw in the code crashed 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows, knocking banks, retailers, and airlines offline.…
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