Weeks After "Blue Screen Of Death", Cyberattack Causes New Microsoft Outage
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The tech giant said it was a DDoS attack that floods a service with traffic in order to bring them to a standstill.
Less than two weeks after global outage, dubbed as "blue screen of death", Microsoft suffered another similar incident, which the company said was triggered by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack. According to Forbes, the latest attack was reported by several users on Tuesday in which users complained of not being able to access several Microsoft services, such as Office, Outlook and Azure. The incident lasted nearly 10 hours. Companies affected by the new outage include UK bank NatWest, as per the BBC.
Other impacted services 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 Purview services".
The tech giant said it was a DDoS attack that floods a service with traffic in order to bring them to a standstill.
