On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and neutralized a 15.72 Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia—making it the largest DDoS event ...

Microsoft said an error in how it had implemented DDoS defences contributed to global issues experienced with some Azure and Microsoft 365 services overnight. The ...

Between 11:45 and 19:43 on July 30, 2024 (UTC), there were problems connecting to some Microsoft services, including Microsoft 365 and Azure-related services, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ...

Microsoft said an outage of Azure cloud applications was triggered by a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack, hours before the company was due to report its ...

Microsoft claimed to have thwarted what it dubbed the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud. The exploit measured at 15.72 Tb/s and 3.64 billion packets per second (pps), targeting a single ...

Microsoft said a DDoS attack was the initial cause of the disruption, but its own defences amplified the attack instead of mitigating it. Microsoft is at the centre of another IT disruption this week, ...

Tuesday’s Microsoft outage has been traced to a DDoS attack that temporarily took down the company’s Azure cloud service. The attack sent a flood of internet traffic that disrupted global access to ...