Overview

• X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced multiple global outages on Monday, with over 40,000 user reports of disruptions at peak times.
• Elon Musk attributed the outages to a 'massive cyberattack,' suggesting involvement by a 'large, coordinated group and/or a country.'
• Musk stated that IP addresses linked to the attack originated in the 'Ukraine area,' but cybersecurity experts cautioned that IP locations alone are not reliable evidence of the attack's origin.
• A pro-Palestinian hacking group, Dark Storm Team, claimed responsibility for the attack, though their involvement remains unverified.
• Experts highlighted vulnerabilities in X's cybersecurity infrastructure, including poorly secured servers, which may have exacerbated the impact of the attack.