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In realistic terms, such a DDoS should not become a world-impacting event. But the figure of Musk and his importance in current U.S. politics changes the outlook,
What Mr. Musk has said is wholly unconvincing based on the evidence so far. It’s pretty much garbage,
Ciaran Martin, a former chief executive of the United Kingdom’s cybersecurity agency, who now teaches at Oxford University, told the BBC on Tuesday morning I am very surprised that X fell over as a result of a DDos attack
Professor Martin questioned X's cybersecurity capabilities over the 'remarkable incident', adding We'll wait and see whether they are responsible
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme We have seen a major resurgence in the category of patriotic hackers since the war began, and these
Without seeing the report of [X's] investigation it would be difficult to agree with this accusation either way.
Ukraine is not interested in such attacks because it can only spoil relations with Musk and the U.S.,
The meeting started very constructively. We are working,
Yermak then posted on Tuesday Especially now, when we have this meeting,
the committee chief added We hope for practical outcomes,
Zelensky said in a statement on Monday We observed that the attack commands were also distributed during this time,
said an XLab security expert Facts are always murky and clearly Twitter went down three times and struggled for much of the day,
It’s easier to explain away their anger, than to accept that actions have consequences,
Hoffman said, referring to Musk I never funded anyone for Tesla protests.”
Hoffman wrote on X of Musk’s accusation against him If you know anything about this, please post in replies. Thanks, Elon.”
Musk, apparently still searching for facts for his claim, added in his post It’s clear Americans are angry”
First, protests against DOGE. Then, Tesla stores were attacked. Now, X is down. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that this downtime is the result of an attack on X."
His statement came in response to a post by Doge Designer, who speculated on a possible connection between recent events 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."
Musk, in a post on X, had addressed the disruptions, saying We're not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,
Musk said during his conversation with Larry Kudlow on Fox News To be extremely clear, no matter how much I disagree with the Ukraine policy, Starlink will never turn off its terminals,