Microsoft Experiences Major Azure Outage Affecting North and South America!

hello and welcome to today's Friday cyber Roundup where we bring you the latest news including stories about recent data breaches zero day vulnerabilities as well as new threats and Trends all in a short video to round out your Friday today we have three new stories that have been folded over the past week so without further Ado let's Jump Right In all right first up Microsoft recently faced a significant challenge when an Azure outage impacted Services across North and Latin America for more than 2 hours hours the incident began at approximately 1822 UTC and the root cause was quickly identified as a configuration change that affected Azure front door which is Microsoft's cloud content delivery Network this outage disrupted cloud services and many dependent Microsoft services including Azure devops which left customers unable to connect or perform essential task although Microsoft responded by rolling back the configuration change recovery was uneven with some regions including the UK continuing to experience issues well after the roll back this outage is part of a troubling pattern for Microsoft as it follows a series of similar disruptions that espark concerns about the robustness of azure's infrastructure given the critical nature of cloud services in today's environment this and previous outages raised serious questions about Microsoft's ability to maintain consistent service levels especially when dealing with high demand scenarios or attacks organizations that use these Services need to assess their dependency on cloud providers and consider redundancy measures in order to mitigate potential downtime when circumstances like these arise next up a new thread actor known as The Hunters International ransomware Group has been aggressively targeting it professionals with a new C remote access Trojan known as sharp Rhino which is being being distributed through a type of squatting site that impersonates a legitimate angry ip scanner tool for those of you who do not know what type of squatting is it is a tactic where attackers create a malicious website that closely resembles a popular legitimate site and then uses that website to distribute malware it's a particularly Insidious tactic because it exploits the trust that it professionals place in commonly used tools after sharp Rhino is installed it grants a attackers elevated privileges on the compromise systems allowing them to execute Powershell commands install additional malware and eventually deploy ransomware this new group is believed to be a Rebrand of the infamous hi ransomware operation and has already carried out 134 ransomware attacks in 2024 alone targeting high-profile organizations including US Navy contractor austel USA and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center organizations need to be vigilant in verifying the authenticity of software and tools that they use and should consider implementing additional security measures like Advanced endpoint protection and user education to prevent such attacks finally the ongoing legal battle between Delta Airlines and cyber security from crowd strike has escalated following a catastrophic it outage that severely impacted Delta's operations this incident was triggered by a faulty update to crowd strike Falcon cyber security software which led to over 85 million Windows devices worldwide crashing rendering them unable to boot into the operating system The Fallout was so severe that Delta experienced a 5-day outage causing massive disruptions to their flight operations resulting in passengers being stranded and thousands of flights being cancelled Delta's CEO Ed Bastian reported that the outage led to a staggering $500 million in losses for the airline prompting them to file a lawsuit against crowd strike the lawsuit claims that crowd strike's negligence in the software update caused significant harm to Delta's business impacting not only their financial standing but also their brand reputation in response Crow strike has denied responsibility stating that they offered immediate assistance to Delta which was denied and suggested that flaws with IND Del's own Disaster Recovery planning were a significant factor in the extended downtime all right that's all for watching or all right that's all for today's Friday Styer Roundup thank you for watching and if you like content like this make sure to like And subscribe and if you'd like more information on how try security can help improve your organization's security posture make sure to visit our website at try security.com