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This photograph shows a tablet and a phone displaying a logo of "CrowdStrike" cybersecurity technology company in Dubai on July 19, 2024, amid massive global IT outage. Asian and European stock markets mostly sank on July 19, after an outage rocked global computer systems, with sentiment also hit by US election uncertainty and Chinese economic worries. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
A fix has been deployed for a bug that caused a global IT outage affecting airports, banks and media across the world, the CEO of CrowdStrike antivirus firm said Friday.
"CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts... The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed," CEO George Kurtz said in a message on social media platform X.
