“Crowdstrike” — 48 distilled results

Two-decade Russian cybercrime operation dismantled

U.S. officials and cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike announced in early September 2026 the dismantling of a major Russian cybercrime operation that had operated for approximately 20 years. The operation was one of the internet's longest-running cybercriminal enterprises despite being overshadowed by more disruptive groups.

CrowdStrike Falcon zero-day exploit grants system privileges

On September 3–4, 2026, an anonymous security researcher using the alias Nightmare Eclipse released FalconFlank, a public proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor that allows local privilege escalation to SYSTEM level on Windows systems. The exploit abuses the endpoint protection software's Office malicious-macros remediation feature.

Year of the evasive adversary: what the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report tells us — and what to do about it Every year, the security firm CrowdStrike publishes a Global Threat Report: a summary o

Year of the evasive adversary: what the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report tells us — and what to do about it Every year, the security firm CrowdStrike publishes a Global Threat Report: a summary of what its intelligence teams observed across the previous twelve months of real intrusions, drawn from the telemetry of a large global customer base.