Elon Musk’s social media platform X experienced multiple outages globally on Monday, March 10, with thousands of users reportedly facing issues accessing the app. Musk acknowledged the disruption to a 'massive cyberattack' in a post on X, suggesting that significant resources or even a country could be involved. He also assured users that efforts are underway to trace the source of the incident.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 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…”
As per Forbes, over 41,000 faced challenges accessing the website at around 10.03 am EDT on DownDetector, which is a platform that detects real-time information on the status of services and websites.
According to Bleeping Computer, the hacktivist group Dark Storm’s DDoS has claimed the multiple attacks on X, causing a global outage that led the firm to take DDoS protection services from Cloudflare. Dark Storm is reportedly a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group and has a history of several attacks on global organizations in Europe, Isreal, and the US after its launch in 2023. Yesterday, the group took charge of conducting multiple DDoS attacks against X. As proof of the attack, they have also shared screenshots and links provided on the check-host.net site.
However, Forbes has quoted Musk speaking to Fox Business Network that however they are still not sure what has happened to the website, yet they have traced the IP address originating from the Ukraine area, hinting on the geo-political connection behind ongoing rift between the US and Ukraine behind the attack.
Notably, this has happened after U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance strongly criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House over the ongoing Russia- Ukraine conflict.
The possible connection between recent events involving Elon Musk and his companies includes protests against Dogecoin (DOGE), which he supports openly, attacks on Tesla stores, and now the outage on his social media platform X. However, there is no confirmed evidence linking these incidents.
Given the timing of these events, cybersecurity experts and analysts may further investigate whether they are coincidental or part of a broader campaign targeting Musk and his enterprises.
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