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U.S. Cyber Agency CISA Says Malicious Hackers Are ‘Taking Advantage’ of Crowdstrike Outage

As much of the world slowly gets back online after an outage caused by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike led to global travel and business gridlock, malicious actors are also trying to exploit the situation for their own gain.

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said in a statement Friday that though the CrowdStrike outage was not linked to a cyberattack or malicious activity, it has “observed threat actors taking advantage of this incident for phishing and other malicious activity.”

CISA warned individuals to “avoid clicking on phishing emails or suspicious links,” which can lead to email compromise and other scams.

Read the rest of the story at Tech Crunch.

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