The social media platform X was met yesterday by a series of failures in what its owner Elon Musk described as a “massive cyber attack” from Ukraine. Analysts believe that the disorder was caused by Botnets – but finding the guilty will be a high order.
The failures started around 2:00 p.m. CET and lasted most of the afternoon, loud loud around 6:00 p.m. Down detector. While the failures seemed to have flat overnight, there was an increase in reports over downtime from 8:00 a.m. until the time of the letter.
“We are not sure what happened,” said Musk during a fox business interview. “But there was a massive cyber attack to lower the X system, with IP addresses from the Ukraine region.”
In a separate post on X, Musk said: “We are attacked every day, but this was done with many resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. “The Multi-Milliardenär has not submitted any evidence to underpin his claims.
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Toby Lewis, head of threat analysis at the cybersecurity company Darkrace based in the UK, said that the X failure seems to be a “fairly standard DDOS attack”, in which many devices are flooded with a server or a network with traffic to overwhelm and close it.
“These types of attacks are almost always delivered by Botnets – worldwide -distributed networks of computers that were unknowingly recruited to take part in the attack, usually by compromising or using malware,” said Lewis.
With Botnets, hackers can control devices in a country without actually being there. Even if the IP addresses have created Ukraine, as Musk claimed, this does not necessarily mean that the attack has a connection to the country or its government.
Jake Moore, Global Cyber Security Advisor at the Slovakian company Eset, emphasized the ability of the method to hide the identity of the guilty.
“DDOS attacks are a clever way to address a website without hacking into the mainframe, and therefore the perpetrators can remain largely anonymous and difficult to point on a finger,” he said.
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Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 in a deal worth $ 44 billion. Within a year he had changed the name of the platform in X, released and made around 80% of the company's employees Removing changes On his content moderation guidelines.
Since the Musk took over, there have been a number of a series of Disorders on the platform. X's last major failure was in August last year when there were hundreds of thousands of listeners unable Access to his interview with the then US President Donald Trump. Musk later accused the incident of a “massive” DDOS attack.
It is practically impossible to determine whether yesterday's attacks had political or ideological motivations. However, it comes in the middle of a series of counter -reactions against Musk, whose role in the US government and Open support from right -wing extremist politicians causes controversy and Fury.
The Tesla share fell to a low of five years on Monday Arson attacks Against the EV brand, which many consider as a symbol for musk, CEO and founder of the company. A report last week found that Tesla sale In Germany, 70%fell in February and in January from a drop in sales of 60%.
Analysts have increasingly associated Teslas with Musks fire Behave. In Europe, Musk openly supported the right -wing extremist AfD in Germany and even organized an interview on X frequently praise On the leader of the Alice Weidel party. During the Trump Office on January 20, Musk made a controversial hand gesture that compared many with a Nazi greeting.
“There is no doubt that” The Musk Factor “has influenced Tesla's turnover as well as his reputation influenced Twitter on Twitter and renamed the X” Previously TNW told.
Musks Possen, a subsidiary of his permanent spaceex, also brought Starlink in hot water. Officials in Europe consider exchanging The satellite internet service with a local alternative in terms of increasing concerns about the security of the continent in the hands of a single private network, the owners of which has direct connections to the US government.
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