Anonymous Sudan claimed a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack on the service MS Outlook. The affected entity went down multiple times earlier this week.
The alleged attack resulted in two outages, one creating a widespread service interruption to all MS Outlook users and the other preventing users from accessing the website.
Microsoft explained on a social media platform that the outages resulted from a technical issue and have mitigated its effects. However, users expressed dissatisfaction after the company said the problem had occurred again.
Their telemetry indicated a reduction in the impact related to the first case of disruption due to their mitigations. As of now, there is no further information regarding the campaign.
Anonymous Sudan said they are behind the attack on MS Outlook.
The notorious hacking group, Anonymous Sudan, claimed that they were the culprit of the attack despite Microsoft disclosing that the system outage was only a technical issue. Moreover, the hacktivist group stated that they performed DDoS on Microsoft as a protest against the United States getting involved in the internal affairs of Sudan.
Furthermore, the group said they could attack any American company. However, the US government forced them after intervening in the internal affairs happening in their country.
This intervention has also triggered the hacktivist gang to continue targeting US-based companies, organisations, and government sectors from this point onwards.
The group has also taunted Microsoft with provocative statements and repeated DDoS attacks on 365 and Outlook services.
Anonymous Sudan has also posted a cryptic message on Telegram after it stated that the fate of hundreds of millions of Microsoft users is in their hands. Hence, they could pick any dominion to inflict damages.
The taunt ended after the group offered Microsoft to pay them a million dollars in exchange for sharing information on how they executed their attacks and how to prevent them. These claims remained unverified, but there could be a basis for that since the services of Outlook have been different since last week.
