Dealing with DDoS threats by KillNet, Anonymous Sudan and REvil

It has recently been reported that KillNet, Anonymous Sudan and REvil have made some credible threats of large-scale attacks against US & European banking systems in response to the Wests support o...
Updated Jun 16, 2023
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Jun 20, 2023

Since posting, I see that Microsoft have announced guidance based on their analysis of early June outages; Microsoft attribute those outages to actions by Storm-1359 while Anonymous Sudan claim responsibility (we could, therefore, posit that Storm-1359 is likely to be Anonymous Sudan & KillNet).

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/06/microsoft-response-to-layer-7-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-attacks/

Microsoft's advice aligns well with our own, above.

See also https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outage-ddos-attack-hackers-outlook-onedrive-7a23f92ab3cc2b7f0c590c7d08cf03fe