Who are CrowdStrike? Tech firm behind virus update that sparked doomsday Microsoft outage worldwide [Video]

THE IT outage creating chaos across the globe appears to stem from a dodgy update sent out by cyber-security company CrowdStrike.

TV channels, banks, hospitals, airports and emergency services have all taken a hit from the system crash.

Founder of cyber research company Imperum Senad Aruc described the incident as “CrowdStrike Doom’s Day”.

He wrote on X: “Looks like Crowdstrike Dooms Day it is real, many airline companies having issues with their systems. Schiphol airport is frozen.”

CrowdStrike is an IT security firm based in Austin, Texas that provides a platform to protect data and is reportedly used by Microsoft.

The company offers a platform dubbed “Falcon Sensor” designed to “blocks attacks on your systems while capturing and recording activity as it happens to detect threats fast”.

But the Falcon Sensor software appears to have caused …