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What is even more interesting why attack Azure? It's not possible to extort anything from Microsoft, so what's the rationale?

• baby_souffle 11mo ago
  Misdirection. If I knock _you_ offline, its not going to be that difficult for you to put together a probable suspects list with me on it. If it's going to cost me about the same in terms of resources to target you and a bunch of other people colocated with you, it's a bit less obvious who launched it and why.
• RajT88 11mo ago
  > targeting a specific public IP address They weren't targeting Azure itself, per se, but some service which was hosted on Azure. The IP address in question wasn't mentioned, so we're left to speculate what this was about.
• fortran77 11mo ago
  Microsoft has succumbed to extortion recently.
• markdown 11mo ago
  > It's not possible to extort anything from Microsoft lul wut? https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors-list-apple-meta-amazon-microsoft-2025-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-ballroom-d... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/microsoft-contributes-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/microsoft-contributes-1-mill...
  • adventured 11mo ago
    It's the exact opposite of extortion. They're thrilled to spend money to buy political favor whenever possible. It's not even a drop in the bucket. "Boeing, Microsoft and Amazon among big donors to Biden’s inauguration" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/boeing-microsoft-and-amazon-among-big-donors-to-bidens-inauguration/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/boeing-mi...
    • SJC_Hacker 11mo ago
      > They're thrilled to spend money to buy political favor whenever possible. "Pay up or you'll have problems with the FCC/DOJ/etc." Not saying its unique to this admin