X hit by ‘massive cyberattack’ amid Dark Storm’s DDoS claims

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, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing ..." Dark Storm is a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group that launched in 2023 and has previously targeted organizations in Israel, Europe, and the US. Today, the group posted to their Telegram channel that they were conducting DDoS attacks against Twitter, sharing screenshots and links [1, 2] to the check-host.net site as proof of the attack. Check-host.net is a website that allows visitors to check the availability of a website from differe ... Read full article.