Iran Press/ America: Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website that monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
Online, users reported problems as far as Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan, with the UK likely to be heavily impacted during Friday’s rush hour.
Cyber security engineers pointed to a problem with Crowdstrike, a piece of antivirus software, which appeared to be causing computers to crash.
Crowdstrike, the cybersecurity company, confirmed seeing these blue screens in various locations and is investigating the cause. The issue appears to be linked to its Falcon Sensor product.
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