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Read through the Forbes article on this. It's from a faulty update from Crowdstrike. I don't have any personal hands on experience with Crowdstrike. But from what I gather, the installed agents on the end points do automatic updates when available from Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike is a cloud based security platform. So this is why the impact has been pretty massive.
A fix has been identified but requires booting into Safe mode and then going to a specific directory on the PC/server to delete a specific file. So far there's no automated way of doing this so it's going to be a long manual process until Crowdstrike figures something out.
This is what we in the IT world call an RGE (resume generating event). And someone(s) is going to have a bad meeting with management/HR. I'm stunned that this wasn't identified in beta testing before being pushed out as a production/general release. Don't know how Crowdstrike is going to handle the ire of customers with real significant monetary loses due to this.
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