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An automated attack would struggle to reach the level of destruction that this failure had due the scale of Crowdstrike deployment and the direct update vector and kernel mode failure. Even with the most critical type of remote vulnerability it would be difficult to achieve anything approaching this level of damage, and for all we know (and by all probabilities) this update was addressing a much less severe vulnerability.



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