Musk Says X Hit By Major Cyberattack
Elon Musk said X was hit Monday by a major cyberattack, raising questions as to whether the politically divisive billionaire is being targeted or his decision to gut staff at what was once Twitter is haunting the social network.Reports of problems with X started early Monday, with users in Asia, Europe, and North America saying they could not access the platform, according to the Downdetector tracking site.“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk said in a post on the platform, which was working sporadically as the day wore on.Musk also blamed a cyberattack, although he provided no evidence, for crashing the site last year when an interview with Donald Trump was about to be streamed on it.In his post Monday, Musk included an X post from a DogeDesigner account that some on Reddit speculated could be a puppet of the tycoon himself — in other words Musk hiding behind his own identity.The post noted protests against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that Trump entrusted to Musk, along with Tesla shops being vandalized, suggesting a cyberattack could signal another burst of animosity towards Musk. He is the chief of Tesla, the electric car company.“It would take a lot of (money) to do an attack of this magnitude,” read a post in the exchange by the account of Jammies.“Who has the resources to fund this?”Musk also maintained such an attack would take tremendous resources, speculating it was the work of a country or large coordinated group.Cybersecurity experts say that it is difficult to assess what is happening without being able to see into X operations, but the duration of the trouble is a sign of an attack.“It’s cyberwar hitting at full force,” said Chad Cragle of cyber defense platform Deepwatch.“With Musk in the spotlight and political tensions at a peak, these attacks bear all the indicators of nation-state aggression.”
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