All news with #outage tag

AWS outage: DynamoDB DNS failure caused disruption

⚠️ Amazon says a major DNS failure in DynamoDB's DNS management system triggered a widespread AWS outage focused on the us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) region. A race condition at 11:48 PM PDT caused the accidental deletion of all IP addresses for the regional DynamoDB public endpoint, producing immediate DNS resolution failures for customer and internal traffic. The fault cascaded across services, kept automated recovery from restoring consistency, and required manual operator intervention to recover. AWS has disabled the problematic DNS automation globally, added protective checks, improved throttling, built new test suites, and apologized for the impact.

Jaguar Land Rover Cyberattack: Costliest in UK History

🔒 The cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover in late August forced a global shutdown of IT systems and halted production across its factories. According to the Cyber Monitoring Centre, the weeks-long outage inflicted an estimated £1.9 billion in losses and affected more than 5,000 organizations, including suppliers and dealers. The UK government intervened with guarantees and up to £1.5 billion in support to secure the supply chain as production is gradually resumed.

Major AWS Outage Disrupts Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite

⚠️ AWS experienced a widespread outage affecting multiple services in the US-EAST-1 region, causing elevated error rates and latencies across key APIs. The disruption, tied to a DNS resolution issue for the DynamoDB API endpoint and subsequent network load balancer problems, interrupted login and content services for platforms such as Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite, Canva and Perplexity. AWS reported mitigation steps and later declared services restored after extended recovery efforts.

China Accuses U.S. of Attacking National Time Authority

🔍 China’s Ministry of State Security has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of conducting cyber intrusions against the National Time Service Center in Xi'an, alleging activity beginning in March 2022. The statement says the campaign initially exploited vulnerabilities in employees’ mobile phones and later affected center computers. Beijing warned that the center’s role in providing official time underpins communications, finance and power systems, and that interference could cause major disruptions. U.S. officials did not immediately respond to the allegation.

YouTube Experiences Worldwide Outage With Playback Error

⚠️ Users worldwide are reporting a widespread YouTube outage causing playback errors and site load failures across web and mobile. Reports began within the last 30 minutes and affected regions include the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Australia, according to outage aggregator DownDetector. Some users see messages such as "Playback error" or "Something went wrong," while others experience slow or incomplete page loads. Google has not yet confirmed a cause; it remains unclear whether the issue stems from server problems, maintenance, or network disruptions.

Pro‑Russian DDoS Disrupts German Federal Procurement Portal

🛡️ The German federal procurement portal was rendered inaccessible for almost a week by a sustained DDoS campaign; the service was restored Tuesday afternoon. Security analysts attribute the disruption to the pro‑Russian hacker group NoName057(16), which has previously targeted critical infrastructure, authorities and companies in Western countries. The attacks, confirmed as DDoS by observers, overwhelmed servers with a flood of requests. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said it was informed of the incident. The portal, dtvp.de, is a central nationwide platform for electronic Q&A and bid submissions in public tenders.

Microsoft Investigates Microsoft 365 Access Outage

⚠️ Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident that is preventing some customers from accessing Microsoft 365 applications. The issue has been tagged as an incident in the admin center while Redmond reviews telemetry and recent service changes to identify the root cause. Microsoft first acknowledged the problem at 05:06 AM UTC and said it continued analysis nearly four hours later to develop a fix. Impact appears limited to users served by the affected infrastructure.

Azure Front Door Outage Disrupts Microsoft 365 Access

⚠️ Microsoft is addressing an outage in its Azure Front Door CDN that is blocking access to some Microsoft 365 services and admin portals across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The incident began around 07:40 UTC and produced delays and timeouts when connecting to the Azure and Entra portals. Engineering teams have been restarting Kubernetes instances that caused capacity loss across AFD instances and have initiated failover for the Microsoft 365 Portal while monitoring telemetry to confirm full recovery.

Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Teams, Exchange, and MFA

⚠️ Microsoft is addressing an ongoing outage that is preventing users from accessing Microsoft 365 services, including Teams, Exchange Online, and the Microsoft 365 admin center. The incident is being tracked on the Service Health Dashboard and Microsoft is publishing updates on its Service Health Status page. The outage is also affecting Microsoft Entra single sign-on and Multi-Factor Authentication, with some users unable to receive MFA prompts or authenticate.

Ransomware Halts Asahi Production, Japan Faces Shortage

🍺 A ransomware attack has forced Asahi Group Holdings to suspend production at nearly all of its 30 domestic breweries after ordering, delivery and call‑centre systems were disabled. The disruption has prompted the postponement of 12 new product launches and suspension of multiple beverage lines, with retailers warning that popular Asahi Super Dry could run out in days. Asahi reports no evidence so far of personal data leakage while investigations and recovery continue.

Nationwide Internet Shutdown in Afghanistan Extended

🌐 Cloudflare observed a nationwide Internet shutdown in Afghanistan on 29 September 2025 that began with a brief fixed-line interruption around 11:30 UTC and escalated to a full fiber-optic cut shortly after 12:30 UTC. HTTP requests, DNS queries (1.1.1.1) and total bytes dropped to zero at a national level, while mobile providers showed brief, partial connectivity. The outage removed the majority of announced IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes and threatens banking, customs, emergency communications, television and radio services.

Asahi Suspends Japan Operations After Cyber Attack

🔒 Asahi has halted order, shipment and call center operations across its Japanese group companies after reporting a system failure caused by a cyber-attack in a September 29 press release. The company said the outage is confined to Japan, offered no estimated recovery timeline and apologized to customers and business partners. It also stated there has been no confirmed leakage of personal or customer data at this time, while security experts caution that positions on compromised data may change as investigations continue.

Co-op Cyberattack Costs Group an Estimated £120 Million

🔒 In its latest half-year report the Co-operative Group said it expects to lose about £120 million in profits this financial year after a cyberattack forced temporary shutdowns of parts of its IT estate. The company reported that personal data for roughly 6.5 million members was stolen, prompting operational disruption across its supermarkets as well as its financial and funeral services. The identity of the attackers remains unclear and investigations are ongoing.

UK Arrests Suspect After RTX MUSE Ransomware Hits Airports

🛫 The UK's National Crime Agency arrested a man in his forties in West Sussex on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences linked to a ransomware attack that disrupted airports across Europe. RTX Corporation confirmed the incident affected its Collins Aerospace MUSE passenger processing software, first detected on September 19. The suspect has been released on conditional bail while the probe, supported by the South East ROCU and other agencies, remains in its early stages. Affected customers shifted to backup and manual processes while RTX and external cybersecurity experts work to contain and remediate the impact.

Hoppegarten IT outage continues after August cyberattack

🔒 The municipality of Hoppegarten in Brandenburg is still recovering from a hacker attack that forced its IT systems to be shut down on August 10. As of September 22, remediation remains ongoing, with central services such as email, telephone, and citizen services restored. Communication with subordinate institutions, including schools and daycare centers, remains disrupted. Authorities say the State Criminal Police Office is investigating a suspected attempted data encryption, possibly tied to an extortion attempt.

Cell Tower Hacking Network Dismantled Near UN Event

🔒 The US Secret Service has seized and dismantled a network of electronic devices across the New York tristate area that could be used to disrupt cellular service ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Authorities recovered 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards, equipment capable of enabling DoS attacks, disabling towers and facilitating anonymous encrypted communications. The operation was led by the agency’s Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit, which says early analysis identified contacts between individuals tied to the network and known nation-state threat actors; the investigation remains ongoing with multiple federal and local partners.

Cyberattack Disrupts Passenger Processing at Major Airports

🛫 According to Tagesschau, IT service provider Collins Aerospace was hit by a cyberattack on the evening of 19 September, disrupting passenger processing at Berlin (BER), Brussels, Dublin and London Heathrow. Security experts said the incident targeted the multi-tenant environment of the ARINC system that supports check-in, boarding and baggage handling. Affected airports reported partial delays and cancellations while Collins worked to restore services.

Third-day airport chaos after supplier cyber-attack

✈️ A suspected cyber-attack on a third-party supplier's check-in platform caused widespread flight cancellations and delays at several European airports, including Heathrow, Brussels, Berlin and Dublin. RTX's Muse software, used for check-in, boarding-pass validation and baggage tagging, was reported as the target, forcing some airlines to revert to pen-and-paper processes. Airports posted notices saying recovery work is ongoing and urging passengers to confirm flight status and use online check-in where possible.

Deep Dive: Cloudflare's Sept 12 Dashboard and API Outage

⚠️ A bug in a dashboard React useEffect dependency caused an object to be recreated on every render, triggering repeated calls to the Tenant Service /organizations endpoint. Those excessive requests coincided with a Tenant Service deployment, overwhelming the service and breaking API authorization checks so many API requests returned 5xx errors and the Cloudflare dashboard became unavailable. Cloudflare mitigated the incident by scaling pods, applying a global rate limit, reverting a problematic patch, and applying a dashboard hotfix. They plan to prioritize Argo Rollouts for safer deployments, add randomized retry delays, increase Tenant Service capacity, and improve observability.

Microsoft Probes Exchange Online Outage in North America

⚠️ Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Exchange Online outage across North America that is preventing users from accessing mailboxes via any Exchange Online connection method. Customers have reported issues for more than six hours on DownDetector, with sign-in and server connection failures affecting Teams, Outlook, and Hotmail. Microsoft says it is reviewing telemetry and applying changes to optimize affected mailbox infrastructure while the root cause is still under investigation.