(The Post Millennial)—X, formerly known as Twitter, has experienced intermittent outages on Monday after a “massive cyberattack,” owner Elon Musk said, with users not being able to access various features of the popular social media platform owned by Elon Musk.
According to Downdetector, which gathers data from users who report outages on various services, users first started reporting issues at around 6 am Eastern, peaking with around 21,000 reports. Issues appeared to be resolved until another spike occurred around 10 am, with over 40,000 users reporting issues. The latest spike in reported issues began around 11 am, with over 35,000 users reporting issues. The latest outage appeared to resolve around 1:30, but was short-lived as reports of issues once again surged and waned.
Musk wrote on Monday afternoon, “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…”
According to Newsweek, the hacker group known as “Dark Storm” took credit for the DDoS attack on the popular social media platform. Cyber threat research team Check Point Research (CPR) told the outlet that the pro-Palestinian hacker group has resurfaced after a period of time with no activity. The hacker group largely targets countries like the US, Ukraine, the UAE, and Israel.
Among the successful targets of Dark Storm in the last month was the Los Angeles International Airport, the UAE’s Ministry of Defense, and Israel’s Haifa Port.
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