Tag: #DDoS
In 2021, Amazon faced a $34 million loss due to a one-hour system outage, highlighting the financial impact of downtime. Similarly, Meta experienced a loss of nearly $100 million following Facebook’s 2021 outage. In an event summary from early August 2024, Microsoft reported a DDoS attack that triggered an “unexpected usage spike,” causing Azure Front […]
On July 30, a sustained cyberattack wreaked havoc on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, causing nearly eight hours of disruption. The attack, exacerbated by an implementation error, affected multiple Azure offerings, including Azure App Services, Azure IoT Central, Application Insights, Log Search Alerts, and Azure Policy. The disruption began at around 7:45 a.m. ET and lasted […]
Sharp Rise in Cyberattacks in Indian Websites Indian websites have been under siege in the first quarter of 2024, experiencing a staggering 261% increase in cyberattacks compared to the same period in 2023, according to a report by application security firm Indusface. This is significantly higher than the global rise of 76% during the same […]