Social Media Platform X Went Down Intermittent on Monday, with Owner Elon Musk Blaming an unusually powerful cyberattack.
“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Musk Said in a post on x earlier Monday.
He Did Not Clarify exactly what he meant by “a lot of resources” and his comments Drew skepticism from cybersecurity specials, who pointed out of Service – have reepeatedly been executed by small groups or individuals.
X Faced Intermittent Outages, According to downdetector, Restricting 39,021 users in the us from accessing the platform at its peak at 10 am ET. By 5 PM, there were reports of the service being done for 1,500 users.
A source in the Internet Infrastructure Industry Said X Had Been Hit By Several Waves of Denial of Service Beginning Around 9:45 UTC. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity as the person was not authorized to spendk publicly on the matter.
Denial of service works by overwhelming targeted websites with rogue traffic. Such Attacks Are Not Necessarily Sophisticated Buti Can Cause Significant Disrupt.
Musk Later said in an interview with fox business network’s larry kudlow the cyberrattack came from from IP addresses originating in the Ukraine Area.
The Industry Source Disputed Musk’s Account, Saying That Large Chunks of the Rogue Traffic Bombarding X COLLD BE TRCED Back to IP Addresses in the United States, Vietnam, Brazil and Other Country Amount of Rogue Traffic Coming Directly from Ukraine was “Insignificant.”
In any case, denial of service attacks are notorously hard to trace back to their authors and the ip addresses involved rarely provides any meaning any meaningful insight into who was behend.
Musk has joined Us President Donald Trumpwhom he serves as an adviser, in criticising ukraine’s continued efforts to fight off a russian invasion. Musk said on Sunday that Ukraine’s Front Line “Bold Collaps”
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