Crowdstrike was co-Founded by Dmitri Alperovitch in 2011.
Alperovitch is of Ukrainian origin, and is Chief Technology Officer of Crowdstrike. The company’s President is the FBI’s former head of cybersecurity.
Crowdstrike previously claimed to have uncovered a major cyberespionage case wherein Russians, likely GRU, hacked into a Ukrainian artillery control system, and used the data to target counterbattery fire. They claimed large percentages of Ukrainian artillery pieces were destroyed because of this.
They had to withdraw the claim later.
Significantly, Crowdstrike based its “findings” of Russian hacking of the DNC servers on the presence of two “Russian” hacker “signatures” (cutely named FancyBear and CozyBear?) — conveniently known to them from their work on the Ukrainian artillery case.
“”””Crowdstrike previously claimed to have uncovered a major cyberespionage case wherein Russians, likely GRU, hacked into a Ukrainian artillery control system, and used the data to target counterbattery fire. They claimed large percentages of Ukrainian artillery pieces were destroyed because of this.””””
This couldn’t have worked without sharks and lasers.