Microsoft confirms that an attack fell on Microsoft 365 and Azure services

Microsoft showed through an update on its Azure Status online page that a 9-hour outage was the result of a DDoS attack that affected its Microsoft 365 and Azure services.

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack affected installations around the world, and in the blog post, Microsoft did not specify where the attack came from. Specifically, the publication states that while the initial DDoS attack did cause the event, Microsoft’s security mechanisms responded to it, but after investigations, Redmond found that “the implementation of our defenses amplified the effect of the attack rather than mitigating it. “

Furthermore, Microsoft said that the impact on consumers began at 11:45 UTC and that as of 14:10 UTC, the fix was already in place and most of the effects had been effectively mitigated. What we have about how the outage occurred is Microsoft’s description of the outage caused by an “unexpected spike in usage” that “caused portions of Azure Front Door (AFD) and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to operate below appropriate thresholds, leading to intermittent failures. , wait times, and latency spikes.

“Between approximately 11:45 a. m. UTC and 7:43 p. m. m. UTC on July 30, 2024, a subset of consumers would have possibly experienced problems connecting to a subset of Microsoft globally. Those affected included Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure IoT Central, Azure. Log Search Alerts, Azure Policy, as well as the Azure portal itself and a subset of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft PurviewArray,” Microsoft says.

Redmond states at the bottom of its post that it will release a full investigative report on the outage that will reveal more details about how the company responded and what happened.

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