CrowdStrike

"Cybersecurity"  CrowdStrike   (Company, Big tech)
Headquarters	Texas, USA
Cyber-"security" company that was main technical enabler of false Russiagate allegations.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. CrowdStrike provides cloud workload and endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services.

Importance

Some of the world's biggest tech companies including Alphabet's, Amazon, and Intel , are its customers tasked with securing their systems. It has about 29,000 customers across the globe. It has therefore an important role in securing many companies valuable to deep state operatives, in particular in the big tech sector. CrowdStrike operates in more than 170 countries and employed more than 7,900 people as of January.

Activities

CrowdStrike has been involved in investigations of several high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, the 2015–16 cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the 2016 email leak involving the DNC.

Crowdstrike was one of the main technical enablers of Russiagate, being behind the technical part of the - false - allegation that Russia hacked the DNC. Kash Patel, an investigator on the House Intelligence Committee, pointed out that "For some reason, for the only time in FBI history that I can think of, they allowed an outside non-government entity to referee. That is, to go in and seize the servers of a target of an investigation and let a third party, CrowdStrike, referee what the FBI could and could not have access to." CrowdStrike never completed a final report and only turned over three redacted drafts to the government. Then FBI Director James Comey admitted in congressional testimony that he chose not to take control of the DNC’s "hacked" computers, and did not dispatch FBI computer experts to inspect them, but had trouble explaining why.

Crashes

Bay Area computer experts baffled by Crowdstrike policy that led to outage

CS update policies caused a dangerous worldwide crash in July of 2024 by forcing a wrong software update into computers, crashing them. Experts such as Dave Farley pinpointed at several weird points in the handling of the crash. It was reported that CS confirmed it didn't test all their updates in their own systems or with test users first.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Hillary Clinton Did It	Article	20 May 2022	WSJ Editorial Board	Appearing as a witness in John Durham’s trial of Michael Sussmann, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, says she personally approved a plan to give a false 'Trump, Russia' claim to the news media.

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