The worldwide chaos on July 19 was a coordinated message and payback - likely by Iran done as a cyber lackey of China.
During the Iranian missile volley toward Israel in April, there were cryptic comments by Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Advisor about remote operations to shut down a very large percentage of the Iranian missile launches.
This was a strong hint and footstomp that Five Eyes/Israeli cyber operations were used to reach in and cause mass mayhem at the Iranian Missile Bases that likely caused mass death and destruction among the hapless Iranian missile crews.
July 19 might very well have been payback.
I’ve never seen anything like it and lived it first hand coming back from the incredible Republican National Convention.
The Crowdstrike simple enterprise update of the Falcon Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Platform essentially made Microsoft based products freak out, go crazy, and try to cough up the huge malware hairball.
O’Hare Airport was total chaos and mass dystopia - I thought I was on some Hollywood Zombie movie set. Many stranded travelers had their phones on speaker while on hold with airlines that were totally overwhelmed by the massive cyber strike.
United, Delta, American, the British National Health System and many other corporate entities were shut down en masse - a huge world wide effect.
I’ve never seen a simple enterprise update “blow up” the software operating environment - unless that was the intended effect.
George Kurtz, the Crowdstrike CEO immediately took responsibility - which was wierd in itself. One can ever be too honest, but normally these events take time to conduct the forensics and come to conclusions. Kurtz lunging at Corporate responsibility was the opposite of the horrible Secret Service Director who has failed the nation. Crowdstrike either willfully enabled the attack or was played and used by the attackers - which reflects poorly on Crowdstrike.
This tit for tat is not over - but the return of Donald J. Trump will put an end to this stealth warfare.
