Cyber attack on X: Do you threaten peace talks to fail now?

Cyber attack on X: Do you threaten peace talks to fail now?

Ukrainische Region, Ukraine - On Monday, the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was hit by a huge cyber attack, which users excluded from access for several hours worldwide. According to the CEO Elon Musk, it is a "massive cyber attack" that could surprisingly come from Ukraine. He expressed this during an interview with the television broadcaster Fox Business and emphasized that X is a daily destination of such attacks, but this time the use of resources was exceptionally high.

In the morning, users from different countries, including the USA, Great Britain and France, reported significant problems with access to X. The monitoring page "Down Detector" at times recorded up to 39,000 users who were affected by the disorders. Musk also explained that a coordinated group or an entire country could be behind the attack, which raises the situation in addition to a geopolitical topic. Skeptics, on the other hand, question Musk's claims; Analysts pointed out that such attacks are often orchestrated by smaller groups or individuals, and many IP addresses of the attacking servers come from countries such as the USA and Brazil.

origin of the attack

Immediately before Musk's statements, reports refer to the Pro Palestinian Hacker Group Dark Storm Team, which openly announced a DDOS attack on the platform. This group is known to target countries and organizations that support Israel in its military actions in the Gaza Strip. While the exact background of the attack remain unclear, it is important to mention that cybercriminals often use deceptively real IP addresses to obscure their origin-a process that is known as "spoofing", like berliner-zeitung.de reported.

experts also emphasize that Musk's speculation about state actors are difficult to prove. Nicholas Reese, a professor of cyber operations, said that the brevity of the failures does not speak for a state actor. "Usually state attacks are more subtle if you want to cause really valuable information," he explained. Nevertheless, the topic remains explosive among cybersecurity experts, while the scope and intensity of such attacks on important platforms such as X continue to increase.