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

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.

> 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.

Microsoft has succumbed to extortion recently.

> It's not possible to extort anything from Microsoft

lul wut?

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-ballroom-d...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/microsoft-contributes-1-mill...