The CrowStrike 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?
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’