'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*
Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame Richard Speed Wed 7 Apr 2021 // 16:33 UTC Share Copy Engineers around the world have been given a few hours off today, assuming they are using Microsoft's Azure DevOps Hosted Pools, as the platform buckled under a second wave of attacks. Issues first cropped up in the early hours of the morning (UK time), afflicting "all geographies" according to Microsoft and was described delicately as "an event" by the engineers attempting to put things back in order. Over the course of five hours Microsoft's team battled to deal with "th...
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