Published on: 2025-05-26 19:43:38
WhataWin/Getty Images On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this? While the pro-Palestinian hacking collective known as Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility on Telegram for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against X, we can't be sure they're responsible. Also: Microsoft's new AI agents aim to help security pros combat the l
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One day after X went down for hours, security researchers are throwing cold water on Elon Musk’s public comments about who might be behind the DDoS attack. On Monday, as X was still struggling to remain online , Musk said in a post that the site had been brought down by a “massive cyberattack” executed by “a large, coordinated group and/or a country.” Later that day, in an interview with Fox News, he said the attack involved "IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area." He never provided evid
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Updates added to the end of the article. The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a "massive cyberattack.". "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Musk posted on X. "We get attacked every day, but this was done w
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'Garbage' to blame Ukraine for massive X outage, experts say He said the incident at X "doesn't reflect well on their cyber security." "I can't think of a company of the size and standing internationally of X that's fallen over to a DDoS attack for a very long time," he added. "It's not that sophisticated - it's a very old technique," Mr Martin told Radio 4's Today programme. Prof Martin - former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - says it looks as if X was targeted by what's k
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Elon Musk is now claiming that bad actors in Ukraine are behind an alleged cyberattack that caused outages on his social media platform X on Monday. In an interview, Musk told Fox Business that he believes the attack came from "IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area." Musk admitted that "we don't know exactly what happened"—nodding as his comments were characterized as a suspicion and discussing no evidence—but alleged that the attackers were trying to take down the entire X platform. A
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The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated by “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country.” In a post on Telegram, a pro-Palestinian group known as “Dark Storm Team” took credit for the attacks within a few hours. Later on Monday, though, Musk claimed in an interview on Fox Business Network that the attacks had come from Ukrainian IP address
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The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a "massive cyberattack.". "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X," Musk posted on X. "We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, co
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A new botnet malware named 'Eleven11bot' has infected over 86,000 IoT devices, primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs), to conduct DDoS attacks. The botnet, which is loosely linked to Iran, has already launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting telecommunication service providers and online gaming servers. Eleven11bot was discovered by Nokia researchers who shared the details with the threat monitoring platform GreyNoise. Nokia's security researcher,
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