At the beginning of June, Microsoft had one of its last problems with its services. These affected Outlook, OneDrive, and others, and now more is known about what actually happened. Microsoft revealed that it was all based on a large scale DDoS attack.
What happened to Outlook, OneDrive, and more?
It is not unusual for Internet services to encounter occasional issues affecting users. It all depends on the scale and what companies can guarantee to protect themselves from the kind of attacks that hackers and other malicious agents are capable of causing.
Microsoft had such a problem in early June that left several of its services unavailable for several hours. From what the company described, it affected Outlook on the web, OneDrive, and the company's other suggestions.
The origin was in a large scale DDoS attack
Now, with more information about what happened, Microsoft Hinge The problem and how did you manage to mitigate it. He revealed that it was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and that it was quickly resolved by the company.
From what Microsoft described, the attacks "temporarily affected" the availability of some services. He added that these items were created primarily for "advertising" a group of malicious clients, which the company called Storm-1359.
Microsoft has detailed what happened in this issue
Even more important is information that no evidence of user data being accessed or compromised has been detected. In a subsequent statement issued by Microsoft, the company confirmed that Anonymous Sudan was responsible for the attacks.
It is not clear how many Microsoft customers have been affected by the attacks or whether the impact of the DDoS attack is global. The company believes that Storm-1359 likely relied on a combination of virtual private servers and rented cloud infrastructure to carry out its malicious operation.
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