17 Facts About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas.

CrowdStrike was co-founded by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston in 2011.

In May 2014, CrowdStrike's reports assisted the United States Department of Justice in charging five Chinese military hackers for economic cyber espionage against United States corporations.

CrowdStrike uncovered the activities of Energetic Bear, a group connected to the Russian Federation that conducted intelligence operations against global targets, primarily in the energy sector.

In 2014, CrowdStrike played a major role in identifying members of Putter Panda, the state-sponsored Chinese group of hackers known as PLA Unit 61486.

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In October 2015, CrowdStrike announced that it had identified Chinese hackers attacking technology and pharmaceutical companies around the time that US President Barack Obama and China's Paramount leader Xi Jinping publicly agreed not to conduct economic espionage against each other.

CrowdStrike released research in 2017 showing that 66 percent of the attacks the company responded to that year were fileless or malware-free.

CrowdStrike compiled data on the average time needed to detect an attack and the percentage of attacks detected by organizations.

In February 2018, CrowdStrike reported that, in November and December 2017, it had observed a credential harvesting operation in the international sporting sector, with possible links to the cyberattack on the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

That same month, CrowdStrike released research showing that 39 percent of all attacks observed by the company were malware-free intrusions.

In January 2019, CrowdStrike published research reporting that Ryuk ransomware had accumulated more than $3.

CrowdStrike claimed that, of 81 named state-sponsored actors it tracked in 2018, at least 28 conducted active operations throughout the year, with China being responsible for more than 25 percent of sophisticated attacks.

In December 2021, CrowdStrike moved its headquarters location from Sunnyvale, California to Austin, Texas.

CrowdStrike helped investigate the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks and alleged a connection to Russian intelligence services, but did not provide FBI access to the DNC servers.

In December 2016, CrowdStrike released a report stating that Russian government-affiliated group Fancy Bear had hacked a Ukrainian artillery app.

CrowdStrike found a hacked variation of POPR-D30 being distributed on Ukrainian military forums that utilized an X-Agent implant.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense rejected the CrowdStrike report, stating that actual artillery losses were much smaller than what was reported by CrowdStrike and were not associated with Russian hacking.