Microsoft products again experience global outage after ‘blue screen of death’ incident, raising cybersecurity concerns

The oligopoly of technology giants, such as Microsoft, has been exposed in such incidents. Over-reliance on the technology and services of a single company can lead to severe shocks to entire industries and even national economies,

said Wang

The outage of services offered by Microsoft, a world-leading tech company, quickly spread to multiple industries and countries, showing the vulnerability of the global internet infrastructure,

Wang said

Rogue actors, cybergangs, and nation-states alike leverage these tactics, so further investigation is required to determine the origin of the threat.

Sylvain Cortes, vice president of strategy at cybersecurity firm Hackuity, told MailOnline

Such attacks are rarely attributed to anyone as the perpetrators can easily hide and evade detection.

Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at ESET, told MailOnline

Rather than fending off the attack, something in Microsoft's cloud architecture overreacted and made things worse

Mr Arntz told MailOnline

Attackers inflict as much pain as they need to achieve their ends

Mr Cortes says

We are investigating reports of issues connecting to Microsoft services globally

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) earlier that day, Microsoft had written

Since the large CrowdStrike outage, it can be assumed that cybercriminals around the globe will now attempt attacks considered unthinkable before

He says

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience.”

The company said in a post on X (formerly Twitter

Initial investigations suggest that an error in the implementation of our defenses amplified the impact of the attack rather than mitigating it."

In a statement on the Azure server status site, Microsoft said

Satya Nadellamicrosoft chief executive

We continue to prioritise security above all else,

Mr Nadella said

We have implemented networking configuration changes and have performed failovers to alternate networking paths to provide relief,

reads the Azure status page

Due to worldwide issues with Microsoft Azure, a problem with our website is affecting several services including MyAccount and PayNow,

said the water company

We're currently investigating access issues and degraded performance with multiple Microsoft 365 services and features. More information can be found under MO842351 in the admin centre."

Microsoft 365 Status said on X

Customers may experience timeouts connecting to Azure services. We have multiple engineering teams engaged to diagnose and resolve the issue,

the tech company said in an online advisory

An unexpected usage spike resulted in Azure Front Door (AFD) and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) components performing below acceptable thresholds, leading to intermittent errors, timeout and latency spikes,

an online advisory published by Microsoft stated