In the last few days, several distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been launched against Microsoft Outlook, one of the world’s leading email providers. Anonymous Sudan, a hackers’ collective, has launched DDoS attacks against Microsoft Outlook. The attacks, which aim to disrupt services and create concerns about various issues, have disrupted Outlook users worldwide. Additionally, online platforms are quite vulnerable to cyber threats because they are hosted online.
Several outages have been reported today on Outlook.com for the same reason as yesterday’s outages. Anonymous Sudan, an Internet hacking collective, claims that it performs DDoS attacks against the service on hackers’ behalf.
It has been claimed, however, that the hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan is responsible for the attack. They assert that they are conducting a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Microsoft’s service in protest of US involvement in Sudanese internal affairs by operating cyberattacks against its infrastructure.
Approximately 1 million Outlook users across the globe have been affected by this outage, which follows two more major outages yesterday. Due to this issue, Outlook’s mobile app cannot be used by users in a wide range of countries as users cannot send or receive emails.
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