X Outage Linked to Dark Storm Hacker Group as Elon Musk Confirms 'Massive Cyberattack'

Elon Musk’s social network X was hit by at least three distributed denial of service attacks Monday that took the site down intermittently worldwide.

“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏,” Musk posted. “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.”

A DDoS attack is a cyberattack in which multiple compromised systems flood a target, such as a website or server, with excessive traffic, overwhelming its resources and potentially making it inaccessible to legitimate users.

While Musk did not speculate who was behind the cyberattacks, internet sleuths pointed to the notorious hacking group Dark Storm. The so-called hacktivists have been behind numerous cyber attacks and threats, among other things, targeting Israel and its allies following the start of its war with Hamas.

According to the internet monitoring website Downdetector, the DDoS attacks against Twitter began at 6:00 a.m. EST on Monday. By 10:00 a.m. EST, the site had collected over 39,000 outage reports. Some 57% of the X users affected were on the X mobile app, Downdetector reported, with 32% on the X.com website.

The Dark Storm Team apparently offers cyberattack services for hire, such as DDoS-as-a-Service and database breaches.

Looking to take advantage of the chaos on X, a Solana-based meme coin called X Hacker (DARKSTORM) launched on Pump.fun. It sits at a $454,000 market cap, as of this writing, while several other X hack-inspired coins have launched and gained substantially less traction thus far.

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