CrowdStrike is the reason everyone in America learned the terms "Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear" in 2016 instead of what they actually were, Russia's GRU and SVR agencies respectively. My understanding is today's events are God's belated wrath.

brb gonna start a conspiracy theory that Kaspersky did this on the way out of the US market

A lot of folks are asking me, a cybersecurity reporter for a major news network, what went wrong today. My answer is this: they have the internet on computers now. And they probably shouldn't.

Will they make an action figure of themselves?