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(Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"51.002876318313\"><body readability=\"102.99624664879\"><\/p>\n<p>Social media service X was hit by a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks Monday, which rendered the platform formerly known as Twitter inaccessible at times for users with intermittent outages and errors, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of those attacks has been much harder to discern.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the site\u2019s owner, described the incident as a \u201cmassive cyberattack,\u201d but did not provide any evidence, and threat researchers have yet to back up that claim. DDoS attacks are malicious, overwhelming targeted systems with traffic, but they do not involve unauthorized access, data theft or encryption \u2014 the hallmarks of more serious and potentially damaging cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not sure exactly what happened,\u201d Musk told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/video\/6369857710112\">Fox Business<\/a> in a Monday interview. \u201cBut there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While it is possible for a threat group to initiate DDoS attacks from a specific region or country, it is rare and improbable, according to F5 Labs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith so many compromised consumer devices all over the internet, attackers could, conceivably, cherry-pick which country they wish all attack traffic to come from,\u201d David Warburton, director at F5 Labs, told CyberScoop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis seems unlikely, however, since in order to try and circumvent defenses, it\u2019s in their interest to distribute attack traffic from all over the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>External researchers can\u2019t determine the originating IP addresses for the flood of malicious traffic that hit X\u2019s servers without direct access to X\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t really know or see what X experienced,\u201d Oded Vanunu, chief technologist and head of product vulnerability at Check Point Research, said in an email. \u201cOnly they know what and from where [it] hit them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dark Storm Team, a pro-Palestinian threat group specializing in DDoS attacks, claimed responsibility Monday, according to Check Point Research. The group also backed up its claim with screenshots on Telegram and a <a href=\"https:\/\/check-host.net\/check-report\/23e27469k58a\">report on Check-Host.net<\/a> that captures a site\u2019s availability at specific times, a practice that bolsters the group\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks are consistent with Dark Storm Team\u2019s \u201cbroader goal of destabilizing prominent digital platforms and infrastructure,\u201d Vanunu said. The group primarily targets organizations in the United States, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>DDoS attack groups such as Dark Storm Team typically use botnets composed of thousands or sometimes hundreds of thousands of infected devices scattered across the globe to conduct their attacks. This makes it difficult to pinpoint any specific malicious IP involved in these attacks, Vanunu said.<\/p>\n<p>Attackers also conceal the source of DDoS attacks through compromised routers and IoT devices, residential proxy networks, and the user datagram protocol, which is linked to more than 4 in 5 DDoS attacks, according to F5 Labs. <\/p>\n<p>UDP allows attackers to \u201ccompletely forge where the attacks appear to originate,\u201d Warburton said. \u201cThis means that it\u2019s possible to make all malicious traffic appear to come from one specific country when, in fact, it is likely being sent from all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>X is the fifth-most visited website globally, according to Similarweb. When a popular website is hit with DDoS attacks, the threat intelligence community often jumps at the opportunity to comment and share their insights. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, six of the most qualified cybersecurity and technology companies tracking malicious activity said they had no knowledge or declined to answer CyberScoop\u2019s questions about what caused X\u2019s sporadic outages.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"4.0510204081633\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"14\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/x-suffered-a-ddos-attack-its-ceo-and-security-researchers-cant-agree-on-who-did-it-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Matt Kapko\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Matt Kapko<\/h4>\n<p> Matt Kapko is a reporter at CyberScoop. 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