Microsoft Blames Cyberattacks for June Service Disruptions

Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages to Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive web portals resulted from Layer 7 DDoS attacks against the company's services by a threat actor tracked by Microsoft as Storm-1359, who calls themselves Anonymous Sudan. The attacks overwhelmed the services with a massive volume of requests, causing the services to hang as they cannot process them all. Anonymous Sudan has targeted organizations and government agencies worldwide, taking them down in DDoS attacks or leaking stolen data. The group has demanded payments to stop the attacks and has claimed to form a "DARKNET parliament" consisting of other pro-Russia groups.