Subj : Microsoft Azure outage caused by "huge spike", that could have be
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Jun 13 2023 14:30:04

Microsoft Azure outage caused by "huge spike", that could have been a DDoS 
attack

Date:
Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:10:32 +0000

Description:
A threat actor known as Anonymous Sudan assumed responsibility for the attack.

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Microsoft has attributed the recent connectivity issues on its Azure Portal 
to a traffic spike - however a cybercrime group has also claimed 
responsibility for causing the outage. 

In an update posted to the Azure status page, the company explained that the 
spike impacted the ability to manage traffic to these sites, resulting in 
customers not being able to use the service properly. 

Users looking to access Azure cloud services were met with a, Were working to 
restore all services as soon as possible message. Besides the Azure Portal, 
several other Microsoft services were also affected, including the Entra 
Admin center and Intune. Distributed denial of service 

"We engaged in different workstreams applying load balancing processes in 
addition to the auto-recovery operations in place in order to mitigate the 
issue. Additionally, we are continuing to monitor the platform health., 
Microsoft said. 

Soon after the incident, a threat actor going by the name Anonymous Sudan 
claimed responsibility for the autage, saying that it engaged in a 
distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attack. In a DDoS attack, a target 
endpoint is flooded with bogus traffic, rendering the server unable to 
process legitimate requests. For the users, the service theyre trying to 
access appears as if its offline. One might describe a DDoS attack as a 
traffic spike. Read more 

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A few days prior to this attack, the company's OneDrive cloud storage 
platform was also hit with a DDoS attack, with the same threat actor assuming 
responsibility. 

"Microsoft, you think we forgot you? We are motivated to teach you liars a 
very good lesson in honesty that none of your parents ever taught you," 
Anonymous Sudan allegedly said on Telegram. "Onedrive has been downed. Let's 
see your new excuse now." 

Some media are claiming the group is affiliated with Russia, and possibly 
even Iran. The hackers were allegedly engaged in anti-Israel activity on 
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Via: BleepingComputer



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https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-azure-outage-caused-by-huge-spike-tha
t-could-have-been-a-ddos-attack


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