@tkb417 This is normal it’s due to the North Korea actors and because of alot of people shipping their jobs abroad or giving it out or North Korea actors taking up jobs in the US.
I saw many engineers blaming the outage on Microsoft 🤦♂️ SWEs blaming without knowing the root cause is concerning.
It is not Microsoft, it is Crowdstrike who released an update for Windows that had a bug. The patch runs in Kernel mode to monitor system activity at a low level.
Because it was running in Kernel mode, the buggy code was trying to access an invalid memory location that triggered a panic and which showed Blue Screen of Death.
The name of the driver file that had the buggy update is "C-00000291.sys", deleting it fixes the issue and unfortunately this needs to be done manually.
Microsoft has nothing to do with it.