Germany is looking into digital attacks by hackers targeting websites in the country.<\/p>\n
The attacks – known as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) – work by directing high volumes of internet traffic towards targeted servers in a bid by so-called hacktivists to knock them offline.<\/p>\n
“The scope and source of these attacks are currently being clarified,” the German interior ministry said.<\/p>\n
It comes on the same day outages were experienced by Microsoft users across the world.<\/p>\n
Earlier the Reuters new agency reported that German cybersecurity officials were investigating the Microsoft outages and looking for “culprits”, but later issued a correction, removing the reference to Microsoft.<\/p>\n
The company has not revealed how many were affected, but Downdetector.com, which tracks outages, recorded thousands of people reporting problems with Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and XBox Live.<\/p>\n
By later in the morning, Downdetector showed the number of reports had dropped considerably.<\/p>\n
Microsoft said it had determined a network connectivity issue was occurring with devices across the Microsoft WAN.<\/p>\n
The firm later tweeted it had rolled back a network change it believed was causing the issue and was using “additional infrastructure to expedite the recovery process”.<\/p>\n
“We’re continuing to monitor the recovery across the service and some customers are reporting mitigation,” reported the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account.<\/p>\n
“We’re also connecting the service to additional infrastructure to expedite the recovery process.”<\/p>\n