The CrowdStrike attack on Windows PCs has affected billions in the last few days but the danger for these users isn’t over yet. The security company has warned people about possible attempts by bad actors to infiltrate these systems and plant malicious applications to steal data or possibly hijack their devices.
CrowdStrike has given a clear mandate to its customers and other PC users that they might get emails from suspicious websites mimicking the security company that promises to fix your system from the ongoing blue screen of death issue.
CrowdStrike Hacker Attack Warning – What It Says
CrowdStrike has released a detailed list of websites that could be using its name to contact the affected PC users and its customers over the next few days. These hackers will claim to help you fix the BSOD issue of your Windows PC and offer other solutions needed to get your system running again. These are some of the websites that can be used to attack your system:
– crowdstrike.phpartners.org
– crowdstrike0day.com
– crowdstrikebluescreen.com
– crowdstrike-bsod.com
– crowdstrikeupdate.com
– crowdstrikebsod.com
– www.crowdstrike0day.com
– www.fix-crowdstrike-bsod.com
– crowdstrikeoutage.info
– www.microsoftcrowdstrike.com
– crowdstrikeodayl.com
– crowdstrike.buzz
– www.crowdstriketoken.com
– www.crowdstrikefix.com
– fix-crowdstrike-apocalypse.com
– microsoftcrowdstrike.com
– crowdstrikedoomsday.com
– crowdstrikedown.com
– whatiscrowdstrike.com
– crowdstrike-helpdesk.com
– crowdstrikefix.com
– fix-crowdstrike-bsod.com
– crowdstrikedown.site
– crowdstuck.org
– crowdfalcon-immed-update.com
– crowdstriketoken.com
– crowdstrikeclaim.com
– crowdstrikeblueteam.com
– crowdstrikefix.zip
– crowdstrikereport.com
The list includes some interesting versions of a website, and even file names in the ZIP format are highlighted that could be part of a mail that is sent by one of these bad actors. The security company also says that people might call you impersonating its support staff, and people need to be vary of these forms of communication as well. CrowdStrike also shares the details of what its Intelligence team has monitored about the source of these attacks:
– Sending phishing emails posing as CrowdStrike support to customers
– Impersonating CrowdStrike staff in phone calls
– Posing as independent researchers, claiming to have evidence the technical issue is linked to a cyberattack and offering remediation insights
– Selling scripts purporting to automate recovery from the content update issue
We have seen major IT disruptions becoming an easy prey for hackers previously and the CrowdStrike attack, with its confirmed 8.5 billion devices in the net, gives them all the reasons to trap these customers into their lair and try to steal data when they are most vulnerable.
