Crowdstrike’s antivirus software was identified by Israel’s Cyber Directorate as the cause of Friday’s global Microsoft outage.
Flights were delayed on Friday, and some hospital services were stalled worldwide as Microsft ceased functioning.
There was widespread concern that a cyber attack from a hostile entity was responsible for the outage.
Israel’s Cyber Directorate identified Crowdstrike’s anti-virus software early in the crisis as the cause of the Microsoft outage.
Crowdstrike, based in Austin, Texas, announced in March that it would acquire Israeli startup Flow Security for $200 million.
Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz later acknowledged the problem resulted from his company’s software and said the issue would be resolved.
He wrote in a statement, “The issue has been identified and isolated, and a fix has been deployed.”
“We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website.”
