A service disruption affecting 18,000 Microsoft users on June 5 is now confirmed to be the fault of a new hacker group which calls itself Anonymous Sudan.
until sites and services are virtually unusable, it remains unclear if that is what happened on June 5.
Microsoft Teams app is seen on the smartphone placed on the keyboard in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Microsoft has been cryptic in the details offered to the public on the exact nature of the Anonymous Sudan attacks. The company has designated the group that calls itself Anonymous Sudan as "Storm-1359," using a naming system which establishes hackers with unknown affiliation.
Fictitious html pages and hacker programs are shown on screens while a man has his hands on the keyboard Photo: Annette Riedl/dpa
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