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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack.
The Azure outage had global reach, impacting a subset of customers attempting to connect to Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure IoT Central, Azure Log Search Alerts, Azure Policy, the Azure portal itself, and a subset of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview services. Many different organisations made statements on Tuesday, notifying users that their services were disrupted as a result of the Azure DDoS attack.
US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country's voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches. The feds didn't go as far as to say they expected DDoS attacks to strike the November election, but they did comment on how popular a tactic they are among politically and ideologically motivated hacktivists and cybercriminals.
CISA and the FBI said today that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting election infrastructure will, at most, hinder public access to information but will have no impact on the...
Do you have problems configuring Microsoft's Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it's using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday's Azure instability. Microsoft has published its strategy to defend against network-based DDoS attacks, noting it was unique due to the global footprint of the company.
Microsoft confirmed that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday, which disrupted numerous Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Affected services included Microsoft Entra, Intune, Power BI, Power Platform, Azure App Services, and others.The company explained that their DDoS protection mechanisms were triggered, but an error in the implementation of their defenses exacerbated the attack's impact. Once the issue was identified, Microsoft made networking configuration changes and rerouted to alternate paths to mitigate the problem.
A DDoS attack that started on Tuesday has made a number of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services temporarily inaccessible, the company has confirmed. Microsoft's mitigation statement on the Azure status history page.
A DDoS-for-hire site described by the UK's National Crime Agency as the world's most prolific operator in the field is out-of-action following a law enforcement sting dubbed Operation Power Off. Su - a platform responsible for tens of thousands of DDoS attacks every week - and the arrest of its suspected admin.
DDoS-for-hire service DigitalStress was taken down on July 2 in a joint law enforcement operation led by the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency. The Police Service of Northern Ireland also arrested its owner this month, and NCA agents infiltrated the communication services used to plan distributed denial-of-service attacks, collecting data on DigitalStress's "Customers."