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

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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.

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They could also DDOS essentially anything with root access to that many devices.

Its like taking all the armies guns to throw them in a volcano ‘cause you want to see the world burn’

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