Welcome to Monday, everyone! To kick off the day, though, we're going to spotlight some news that was released Friday, just before the U.S. holiday weekend. Microsoft attributed a string of service outages aimed at Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive earlier this month to an uncategorized cluster it tracks under the name Storm-1359, which calls itself Anonymous Sudan.
From BleepingComputer:
In a Microsoft Security Response Center post released on Friday, Microsoft now confirms that these outages were caused by a Layer 7 DDoS attack against their services by a threat actor they track as Storm-1359.
"Beginning in early June 2023, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability. Microsoft promptly opened an investigation and subsequently began tracking ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-1359," confirmed Microsoft .
"These attacks likely rely on access to multiple virtual private servers (VPS) in conjunction with rented cloud infrastructure, open proxies, and DDoS tools."
"We have seen no evidence that customer data has been accessed or compromised."
You can learn more by reading the whole article here:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-azure-outlook-outages-caused-by-ddos-attacks/
