"Not Aware Of Any Malicious Activity": Microsoft On Global Outage

Microsoft said Thursday that it was not aware of any "malicious activity" behind the hours-long disruption of its Outlook services."As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident.

We will continue to treat this incident with urgency and priority until full resolution," Microsoft said.Earlier, Microsoft said that efforts to repair a major outage of Outlook were not going as expected and the firm was seeking alternative solutions as users around the world were left without its crucial services.The hours-long disruption, which Microsoft attributed to "elevated load" on its infrastructure, has hit email as well as products such as Teams and the AI assistant Copilot.The impact of the outage has been felt globally, with users ranging from companies to governments reporting that they were unable to communicate via Outlook."We've monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed they're not taking as expected," Microsoft said on X."We're identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity," the…