the null file itself was a fiction

yep me too. And it's so obviously bullshit that probably it was a signal of some sort. "You got no hope" perhaps.

Look at the company name itself, "Crowdstrike". Strike at a crowd? Very memetic.

Very memetic. But if that was intentional, it was a very long plan. Crowdstrike has been around for yonks. They covered up the DNC "hack". That was eight years ago.