A DDoS attack involves overwhelming a website or server with excessive traffic, impairing its functionality or causing it to go offline. This type of cyber threat is common and often targets e-commerce, gaming, and telecom companies to disrupt their operations, damage their reputation, or infiltrate databases for confidential information. While some DDoS attacks are short-lived, others can persist for extended periods, causing significant disruption.
Nine-Hour Service Disruption Affects Azure and Microsoft 365 Users
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack caused a significant disruption to several Azure and Microsoft 365 services on Tuesday, July 30, affecting users globally for over nine hours. From 11:45 UTC to 19:43 UTC, Microsoft customers experienced connectivity issues with various services including Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure IoT Central, Azure Log Search Alerts, Azure Policy, the Azure portal, and parts of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview.
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