The closest that Microsoft had previously come to acknowledging that DDoS attacks were behind the service outages was to say that a “spike in network traffic” took down its Azure portal June 9.

Microsoft disclosed that the major outage that impacted services including Microsoft 365 and Azure on Tuesday was initially caused by a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, though the ...

A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday — from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks’ mobile app — was triggered ...

“This defect in OpenAI software will spawn a DDoS attack on the victim website, utilizing multiple Microsoft Azure IP address ranges on which ChatGPT crawler is running.” Flesch said the ...