Microsoft Teams Offline and Microsoft is Still Blaming "Russia" for Its Own Failings
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The Verge ☛ Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours — it’s recovering
So yeah, if you couldn’t communicate with your colleagues today via Microsoft’s biz comm platform, that’s probably why. We’d seen reports of users not being able to log into Teams at all, while others saw missing messages, missing attachments, delays, and more.
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TechXplore ☛ Microsoft Teams outage blocks access, limits features for some users
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The Register UK ☛ Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage
In the Americas, however, attempts to bring Teams back online failed to achieve the desired effect. "Our failover operation did not provide the anticipated relief to end users in North and South America regions and we are now working to optimize traffic patterns as part of the mitigation effort," the service bulletin read.
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Cyble Inc ☛ Hewlett Packard Discloses Russian [Crackers] Breached Cloud Email, Impacting Critical Business Areas
The threat actor, identified as Midnight Blizzard or Cozy Bear, is believed to have gained unauthorized access to HPE’s systems. HPE responded promptly by activating its response process and initiating an investigation, containment, and remediation efforts with the assistance of external cybersecurity experts. The company successfully eradicated the malicious activity.
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The Register UK ☛ Microsoft sheds some light on Russian email heist – and how to learn from Redmond's mistakes
On Thursday, Redmond admitted Midnight Blizzard – a Moscow-supported espionage team also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear – "utilized password spray attacks that successfully compromised a legacy, non-production test tenant account that did not have multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled."