The X social media platform owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk is facing a “massive cyberattack” that has disabled several features, and ProHamas Group has argued responsibility for it.
Musk said platform workers were trying to track the attack on Monday after several outages were reported by users. Newsweek Report He said at least three major outages were detected earlier in the day.
“DDOS attacks are an organized online effort to overwhelm the website's servers to disable access to normal users of the site.”
“We had a massive cyberattack on 𝕏 (still) and we're attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. We're involved with large, coordinated groups and/or countries.” I said Musk on the platform.
Telegram reportedly praised the pro-Palestinian hacking group Dark Storm team for “distributed denial of service” attacks against X servers. Newsweek reported that the group was behind the success of cyberattacks at the UAE Department of Defense and Los Angeles International Airport.
Left critics attacked Musk for shutting down several programs and policies on his mission to improve the efficiency of President Donald Trump's government and eradicate waste, fraud and abuse. Some have protested Tesla, another company led by Musk, while Tesla owners have even reported random vandalism on cars and cybertrucks.
On Friday, the Trump administration drastically cut Columbia University's $400 million grants and other taxpayer funds as schools refused to prevent pro-Palestinian students and protesters from threatening and preventing harassment.
Distributed denial of service attacks are organized online efforts to overwhelm the servers of a website in order to disable access to normal users of the site.
“They want to silence you and this platform.” I answered X users to masks.
“Yes,” he I responded.
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