The CrowdStrike cyber event affected 8.5 million Windows machines and was the biggest IT outage in history. It has “beaten” even the cyber attacks of WannaCry and NotPetya.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3zgznwjno
Can/will this method be used by hackers? What would they need to do to take advantage of that vulnerability?
EDIT: typo
malicious actors rarely look to take down IT resources as their goal
Could be a hostile government sponsored group or idealists (Microsoft has more haters than fans) or simply someone could do it just because they can - if they could. Some men just want to see the world burn.