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CrowdStrike unveiled an 'AI Kill Switch' at its Fal.Con Europe conference, a feature within its Falcon Guardian platform that lets security teams terminate misbehaving AI agents, block them from restarting, and cut their network access. CEO George Kurtz said the tool, available immediately, gives organizations an 'off button' for autonomous AI systems.
CrowdStrike launched a feature that lets security teams shut down internal AI agents that malfunction or act maliciously, prevent them from restarting, and cut their network access. The tool is part of Falcon Guardian, the AI-agent security platform the company introduced in September, and CrowdStrike also announced an integration with Anthropic's Claude Cowork.
CrowdStrike unveiled an 'AI Kill Switch' tool at its Fal.Con cybersecurity conference in Europe, adding it as a feature of its Falcon Guardian AI Detection and Response platform launched in September. The tool lets security teams shut down AI agents that deviate from their assigned behavior. CNBC's Jim Cramer praised the announcement on air, calling CrowdStrike stock a buy after the shares rose about 1%.
CrowdStrike is purchasing AI observability startup Fiddler AI for about $400 million and AI security-testing startup Dreadnode for roughly $95 million, per the Wall Street Journal. Fiddler AI will be integrated into CrowdStrike's Falcon platform as Falcon Observe, while Dreadnode's automated testing tools aim to catch flaws in AI models and agents before deployment.
CrowdStrike reports that a China-nexus threat actor it tracks as Vapor Panda used the ARTEX AI penetration-testing framework, alongside DeepSeek and another commercial language model, to target over 200 organizations in 14 countries starting October 17. The campaign hit government ministries, telecoms, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, defense, nuclear and financial sector targets, compromising at least nine organizations and conducting password spraying and credential scanning against at least a dozen more.
CrowdStrike's investigation found a 26-year-old man in southern China behind cyberattacks on at least nine major South Korean banks that exposed tens of thousands of customers' financial data. The hacker reportedly used Anthropic's Claude alongside free Chinese models like DeepSeek to carry out the breach, sell stolen data, and even draft a fake résumé claiming cybersecurity expertise. CrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers said the AI tools used were largely interchangeable across the operation.
Jim Cramer said Thursday's market selloff, which saw the Dow and S&P 500 fall 0.4% and the Nasdaq drop 1.4%, unfairly punished Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Workday and Salesforce alongside disappointing results from Fortinet and ServiceNow. He argued these companies have different business models and competitive positions than the firms that missed estimates.
GMO Internet is investigating suspected unauthorized access to its Onamae cloud desktop service, which provides virtualized desktops to financial traders. The company says an attacker has published data allegedly tied to customers and its business, though it has not fully verified the leak's contents, and up to 27,000 servers may be affected. GMO has urged customers to reset passwords after reports of unauthorized activity on trading accounts.
CrowdStrike researchers analyzed AI infrastructure from four previously unreported threat groups operating between May and August, writing in Chinese, Spanish/English, Indonesian and Russian. Two built sophisticated AI 'harnesses' while two less technically advanced groups still compromised multiple targets, mostly relying on older versions of Anthropic's Claude and open-weight Deepseek models left exposed on public servers.
Staffing software provider Bullhorn took its systems offline to contain a cyberattack that triggered a system-wide outage, starting with job-posting errors reported Friday and escalating to a full platform disruption by Saturday. The company says it has isolated and eradicated the immediate threat and is working with CrowdStrike to restore services, while a forensic investigation continues to determine whether customer data was exfiltrated.
CNBC's Investing Club reports that its 32-stock portfolio has diverged sharply over the past five weeks, with AI-exposed names like Micron among the week's biggest losers and defensive stocks such as Cardinal Health among the top gainers. Since the group's Sept. 10 meeting, the Nasdaq is up 2.3% overall even as the Dow fell nearly 1%, while this week alone the Nasdaq dropped 2.5% amid a hot inflation report and renewed AI-stock weakness. CrowdStrike and Meta Platforms were cited as standout winners, up 19.4% and 14.4% respectively, driven by cybersecurity demand and AI-related product momentum.
The Department of Justice disrupted operations tied to Famous Chollima, a North Korean threat group, arresting two suspects and charging 14 individuals. The FBI's 'Lonestar Roundup' operation searched 40 Texas residences between September 21-25, seizing about 187 laptops and KVM devices used to run so-called laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers appear to be based in the US.