Huge Cyber attack on X today !

[Yvonne Smith]

This has been happening since early this morning, and the website has been hit at least 4 times already, according to the reports I am reading. Elon Musk says that this is a very coordinated attack, and it has to be either a very large group or even a country that is attacking the X website.
Every time I have checked, the website is working, but i am reading all kinds of reports from other people saying that it had not been working for them and just came back on. These reports are different times, so they are from several of the outages.
Thankfully, so far Elon has been able to keep his website online, but the attacks are continuing, and so far no one seems to know where they are coming from.

An interesting thing……. The other day, a small plane crashed, I think in Pennsylvania, right near some apartments. The plane was apparently some kind of a spy plane and was capable of starting an EMP over a small area, like a business or large buildings. I am not sure why it crashed, but the reports are that it was definitely a spy plane. I do not know if this could be related to the attack in X or not, ,but it is definitely a close coincidence in times.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

They are now saying that the cyber attack originated from Ukraine. Just the other day Ukraine was worrying that Elon might shut down their Starlink connections, and now they are cyber-attacking him on his X website.
Not a very good way to stay in his good graces.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I had hopes that X would publish all who opposed MAGA via votes on bills before election day to prove who is actually representing our wishes. This can work for Dems as well as Republicans. For example, who is for cutting waste and fraud and who is against it.

 

[Cpvr]

Dark storm claimed responsibility for taking down X/Twitter 4 times yesterday.

X Under Attack—Dark Storm Says It Was Behind Musk Platform DDoS

While Elon Musk looks to Ukraine, a pro-Palestine group called Dark Storm has claimed responsibility for the massive cyberattack that took down X.

www.forbes.com

X Cyberattack Latest Developments​

After the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, suffered multiple outages on March 10, Elon Musk was quick to pin the blame on a “massive cyberattack” and opined that either a “large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.” Now, a new prime suspect has emerged as the pro-Palestinian hacktivist collective known as Dark Storm claims responsibility for taking X down. How this ties in with Musk telling Larry Kudlow during a Fox Business Network interview that the attack had been traced to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” remains unclear.


Dark Storm, however, is known to use tactics that are very similar to a Russia-linked group called KillNet, which also had a history of attacking western targets, and Ukraine supporting organizations, before becoming a more mainstream attackers-for-hire service. Dark Storm itself was first observed in 2023 and has attacked NATO countries, Israel and the U.S. with large-scale DDoS campaigns as well as ransomware attacks.

Dark Storm claimed responsibility for the X cyberattack in its Telegram channel. “Twitter has been taken offline by Dark Storm Team,” it posted using the old name for X as, one assumes, a sign of defiance against Musk. The group also shared screenshots from Check Host, which is often used by DDoS attack groups to prove that an attack is happening as it illustrates site availability from multiple global servers

Oded Vanunu, chief technologist and head of product vulnerability at Check Point, said, “the resurgence of Dark Storm Team highlights the growing cyber threat against major online platforms and critical infrastructure. For users, this means potential service disruptions, downtime, and limited access to essential websites and apps.”