Summary
Beginning in early June 2023, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability. Microsoft promptly opened an investigation and subsequently began tracking ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-1359…
Microsoft confirmed this week that the June 5 attacks on their service platforms were perpetrated by a shadowy new startup hacker group called Anonymous Sudan.
In an announcement via Twitter, Microsoft disclosed that there were close to 18,000 outages in their Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint software services.
The shadowy new group, with possible ties to Russia, claimed responsibility for the attacks via Telegram through a spokeswoman.
Microsoft has since released in a blog post that Anonymous Sudan likely used a virtual private network or VPN as well as rented cloud space to orchestrate the attacks…
