What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
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Summary
On Monday, leading social media platform X suffered outages, with owner Elon Musk blaming a “massive cyberattack”
A pro-Palestinian group called Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for the supposed attacks
But Musk later stated that the traffic seemed to be coming from Ukrainian IP addresses.
Experts from Cisco’s ThousandEyes stated that the network conditions observed indicated a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which are common for modern internet services.
Researchers believe that the servers behind X were not properly secured, and were thus directly targeted.
Following the incident, X has deployed extra security measures.
Musk has repeatedly mocked Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, since Russia’s invasion of the country last year.
His space company, SpaceX, recently won a $1.4bn US government contract that could see Starlink internet service used in Ukraine.
