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X hit by ‘massive cyberattack’ amid Dark Storm’s DDoS claims
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X hit by ‘massive cyberattack’ amid Dark Storm’s DDoS claims

The corporation turned on Cloudflare's DDoS safeguards after the Dark Storm hacktivist organization allegedly launched DDoS attacks that caused several X global disruptions on Monday. Elon Musk, the owner of X, acknowledged that a significant hack was the source of the disruptions, but he did not explicitly say that DDoS attacks were to blame. Musk wrote on X, "There was (is) a massive cyberattack against X. This took a lot of resources, yet we are assaulted every day. Either a nation or a sizable, well-coordinated group is involved. tracking. Since its founding in 2023, the pro-Palestinian hacktivist group Dark Storm has attacked organizations in the US, Europe, and Israel.As evidence of their DDoS operations against Twitter, the gang shared screenshots and URLs read more abo...