Microsoft says hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan' DDoS attacks “temporarily impacted availability” of Azure, Teams, Outlook, and more services in early June 2023
Possibly Pro-Russian Ties The Hacker News : Microsoft Blames Massive DDoS Attack for Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive Disruptions Wes Davis / The Verge : Microsoft says June Outlook outages were a DDoS attack Jak Connor / TweakTown : Microsoft confirms it was attacked, causing an outage that may have affected millions Alex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com : Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit Matthew Gooding / Tech Monitor : Microsoft quietly admits DDoS cyberattacks took down Office 365 and Outlook Shraddha Goled / TechCircle : Microsoft confirms DDoS attack caused Azure, Outlook outages Waqas / HackRead : Microsoft Discloses DDoS Attack Impact with Limited Details Techlusive : Microsoft says June Azure, Outlook outages were caused by DDoS attack Digital Trends : Microsoft confirms recent service outages were DDoS attacks CyberCX : A bear in wolf's clothing: Insights into the infrastructure used by Anonymous Sudan to attack Australian organisations Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Microsoft discloses detailed analysis of Layer 7 DDoS attacks Craig Hale / TechRadar : Microsoft Azure and Outlook outages were caused by DDoS attacks Simon Sharwood / The Register : With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Microsoft: June Outlook and cloud platform outages were caused by DDoS Igor Bonifacic / Engadget : Microsoft confirms June Outlook and OneDrive outages were caused by DDoS attacks Mehrotra A / Neowin : Microsoft says the early June outage to its services was due to a DDoS cyberattack Michael Novinson / GovInfoSecurity.com : DDoS Attacks Culprit of Recent Azure, Microsoft 365 Outages Twitter: @uk_daniel_card : People dismiss dos... most orgs aren't protected against them https://twitter.com/... Frank Bajak / @fbajak : Most DDos attacks are little more than a nuisance, but disrupting web-based services like Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive can affect the productivity of millions as so much of global commerce and governance depends on Microsoft's stuff working. Kevin Beaumont / @gossithedog : Microsoft quietly snuck out a blog on Friday night admitting Azure and Microsoft 365 have been under DDoS for weeks - previously they had been calling it “technical issues” They then didn't put out the blog on their social channels, nor name Azure or M365 https://apnews.com/... @uk_daniel_card : Microsoft Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks “These attacks likely rely on access to multiple virtual private servers (VPS) in conjunction with rented cloud infrastructure, open proxies, and DDoS tools.” They mention these vectors > HTTP(S) flood... https://twitter.com/... @cyberknow20 : Microsoft blog explaining the ddos attacks that impacted services in early June These attacks were claimed by AS Sudan (Anonymous Sudan) and highlight that even low capability with high intent has capacity to hassle https://msrc.microsoft.com/... #cybersecurity #infosec Alexander Leslie / @aejleslie : “Alexander Leslie (@RecordedFuture)...said it's unlikely Anonymous Sudan is located as it claims in Sudan...” “The group works closely with Killnet and other pro-Kremlin groups to spread pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, he said.” (via @fbajak) https://apnews.com/... Frank Bajak / @fbajak : In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Msft's Outlook, OneDrive apps and Azure cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed it was DDoS attacking. Initially reticent, Msft now confirms it was indeed DDoS. https://apnews.com/... Justin Elze / @hackinglz : The recommendations section is odd when this impacted the provider https://msrc.microsoft.com/...