"The individual was believed to have been paid around $25,000 for this, which all things considered, I think, is quite low when you're risking being fired and, you know, a potential jail sentence in the aftermath of this. So these were leaked on Telegram. CrowdStrike, obviously, was made aware of this and they reacted pretty swiftly like we mentioned. That person has since been dismissed, I don't think it was too much of an issue for HR in that situation."
"A lot of organizations still lack formal insider threat programs. It's something that's just not really on their radar because a lot of the time, the headlines are based around you ransomware attacks, malware, etc, etc. And so, you know, when you have an individual in your company that's potentially at risk, how do you deal with that?"
"An outage at Cloudflare, I think, is a worst case scenario for a lot of organizations, a lot of online services."
"The outage itself was a result of a bug in its bot management software. So, the software that essentially allows websites to allow bots onto their individual sites, or prevent bo"
An employee at CrowdStrike provided screenshots of internal systems to hackers for approximately $25,000, with the materials leaked on Telegram and the individual subsequently dismissed. Many organizations lack formal insider-threat programs and therefore remain vulnerable when staff members are at risk. A global outage affected many websites after Cloudflare experienced a failure tied to a bug in its bot management software. The bug impacted how sites allowed or prevented bots, producing widespread disruption. Organizations face severe consequences from both insider misuse and third-party software flaws, highlighting the need for stronger insider risk controls and resilience planning.
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