This Monday is being complicated to X And, above all, for its users. The social network has been experimenting throughout the day interruptions In your services. In the Downdector Portal, which monitors Internet services, it can be seen how they have been globally and following A curious pattern. When it seemed that the problem was solved and the old Twitter returned to normal, the error reports were shot again, which have not yet ceased. They have been four peaks of user complaints throughout the day that, as he has affirmed Elon Musk In X, They are due to a ‘mass cyber attack’.
The first fall, which has collected a greater number of incidents, has occurred At 10:00 this morningpeninsular time. It has lasted little over an hour in which users found that they could access X via web or app, but without the publications in the feed were charged.
At 14:33 The second wave has occurred, which has sent until Incident reports practically disappear an hour later. Around 16:00 hours The third wave has arrived, which is the one that has taken the most to resolvemore than two hours later. And after half past six in the afternoon the, until now, last and fourth, already in remission has arrived.
‘There were (there are still) a massive cyber attack against 𝕏. They attack us every day, but in this case many resources were used. It is a large and coordinated group or a country. Tracking … ‘, said the tycoon in X.
Last summer, when Elon Musk interviewed Donald Trump In an X Space, broadcast was delayed and there were technical difficulties to access. He also then attributed the problems to ‘a massive attack of denial of service’.
DDOS or denial attacks are a method that malicious actors use to prevent access to a certain product or service on the Internet. It is achieved saturating server response capacity with an unusually high number of requests. Usually, this is achieved by using Botnetsnetworks of controlled devices by malware remotely and without their legitimate owners knowing that they are infected or the use they are being given.
Subsequently to the publication in X, in an interview with the Fox chain, Musk has pointed out that in The attack was made ‘with IP addresses originated in the area of Ukraine’.
According to Bleeping Computer, the hacker group Dark Storm The attack on X. This group, formed in 2023 and has previously made attacks against organizations in Israel, Europe and the United States, is known for its position in favor of Palestine and against Israel.