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Microsoft has confirmed that the June outage of Outlook was due to a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which targeted OSI layer 7. The attack was carried out by a group called Anonymous Sudan, using botnets and tools from multiple cloud services and open proxy infrastructures. Microsoft has offered recommendations for guarding against such attacks in the future and believes the attackers were focused on disruption and publicity. It's not clear how large traffic bursts were in the attack.
Elon Musk appeared to offer a $1 million bounty to help find the source of "botnets" on Twitter, which are allegedly targeting reputation scores. A user identified a negative feedback loop in Twitter's algorithm that hurts accounts if blocked. Musk plans to increase the amplification of tweets from verified accounts, in a bid to boost subscriptions to Twitter Blue and revenues. Twitter also released coding information that showed how it recommended tweets to followers on the For You feed.
Elon Musk appeared to offer a $1 million bounty to help find the source of "botnets" on Twitter. A user identified a negative feedback loop in Twitter's algorithm that hurts accounts if blocked. The user said by taking control of several accounts, botnets were able to suppress certain accounts by mass blocking, unfollowing, and reporting them. Musk plans to increase the amplification of tweets from verified accounts, in a bid to boost subscriptions to Twitter Blue and revenues.
