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Microsoft says massive Azure outage was caused by DDoS attack
Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday, which took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Redmond says the outage impacted Microsoft Entra, some Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview services (including Intune, Power BI, and Power Platform), as well as Azure App […]
Hackers use PoC exploits in attacks 22 minutes after release
Threat actors are quick to weaponize available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits in actual attacks, sometimes as quickly as 22 minutes after exploits are made publicly available. That is according to Cloudflare’s Application Security report for 2024, which covers activity between May 2023 and March 2024 and highlights emerging threat trends. Cloudflare, which currently processes an average […]
PHP bug executes RCEs, cryptominers and DDoS attacks
Not long after a new PHP bug was disclosed in the late spring, Akamai researchers observed numerous attempts to exploit the vulnerability, which they said indicates high exploitability and quick adoption by threat actors. Because PHP is one of the most popular server-side scripting languages used to create dynamic web pages on more than 75% […]