Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all manner of creeps
Criminals didn’t waste any time taking advantage of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos and quickly got to work phishing organizations and spinning up malicious domains purporting to be fixes.… Just hours after a faulty CrowdStrike file shut down Windows machines around the globe, reports surfaced of scam emails using the outage as a lure and otherwise trying to use the massive outage as a means to pursue criminal activities.
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Source: MSN News
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