Tuesday’s Microsoft outage has been traced to a DDoS attack that temporarily took down the company’s Azure cloud service. The attack sent a flood of internet traffic that disrupted global access to… Article Source https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-azure-outage-due-to-ddos-attack
Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday, which took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Redmond says the outage… Article Source https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-massive-azure-outage-was-caused-by-ddos-attack/
Microsoft blamed an implementation error for amplifying the impact of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday, which ended up disrupting the company’s Azure cloud services for nearly eight hours. The attack affected several Azure… Article Source https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/microsoft-azure-ddos-attack-amplified-cyber-defense-error
Microsoft has confirmed the cause of the outage on July 30 was a distributed denial-of-service attack. However, its advisory added that the issue was exacerbated by an “error in the implementation of their defenses” during a mitigation… Article Source https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-azure-outage-ddos-attack/