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The Associated Press reported that in response to its inquiries about the cause of the outage, Microsoft admitted that Anonymous Sudan and DDoS orchestrated by the group were the cause of the outages. The post that the AP claims is Microsoft's admission of succumbing to Anonymous Sudan doesn't mention the source of the DDoS - but does state: "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.".
Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages to Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive web portals resulted from Layer 7 DDoS attacks against the company's services. The outages occurred at the beginning of June, with Outlook.com's web portal targeted on June 7th, OneDrive on June 8th, and the Microsoft Azure Portal on June 9th. Microsoft did not share at the time that they were suffering DDoS attacks but hinted that they were the cause, stating for some incidents that they were "Applying load balancing processes in order to mitigate the issue."
Microsoft revealed in an update to the Azure status page that the preliminary root cause behind an outage that impacted the Azure Portal worldwide on Friday was what it described as a traffic "Spike." Customers who wanted to access the Azure Portal on Friday afternoon at portal.
Outlook.com is suffering a series of outages today after being down multiple times yesterday, with hacktivists known as Anonymous Sudan claiming to perform DDoS attacks on the service. This outage follows two major outages yesterday, creating widespread disruptions for global Outlook users, preventing users worldwide from reliably accessing or sending email and using the mobile Outlook app.
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Technology provider ScanSource has announced it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack impacting some of its systems, business operations, and customer portals. ScanSource is a U.S.-based cloud service and SaaS connectivity and network communications provider that also offers special PoS and payments, security, and AIDC solutions.
GitHub's Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering shared more details today on a string of outages that hit the code hosting platform last week. The second outage, occurring on May 10, impacted the issuance of authentication tokens for GitHub Apps and resulted from high load and inefficient implementation of an API responsible for managing GitHub App permissions.
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Americold, a leading cold storage and logistics company, has been facing IT issues since its network was breached on Tuesday night. "Americold is continuing to assess the intrusion that occurred Tues night / Wed morning. We contained the intrusion and shut down our network to ensure there is no risk to non-contained areas or customers. We are still in the discovery process on the path to rebuild the impacted systems," the cold storage giant said.
Websites and mobile apps of Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB Bank, and Bank of Scotland are experiencing web and mobile app outages leaving customers unable to access their account balances and information. BleepingComputer has been able to confirm that the four major UK banks are currently experiencing disruptions related to their online banking and mobile banking systems since the early morning hours of Friday, April 28th. Websites of banks including Lloyds, Halifax, TSB, and Bank of Scotland admit that some customers are having issues when accessing Internet and Mobile banking services.