Crowdstrike — 8.5M Windows machines bricked

Casualty stat: ~8.5M endpoints down · airlines grounded · hospitals scrambling

A content update for the Falcon sensor shipped a malformed channel file. The kernel driver dereferenced an invalid pointer, hitting BSOD on every boot. Because the driver loaded before users could even log in, recovery required physical access — a global airline-grounding, hospital-paging Friday.