Dark Storm claims responsibility for the X Ddos attack.
UPDATE, March 12, 2025: This story, originally published March 11, has been updated with an additional overview by multiple security experts regarding the DDOS attack against Elon Musk’s Social Media Platform.
Internet attacks take many different forms, and while Paypal and Malware Infostealer scam campaigns appear with alarming regularity, dispersed denial of service attacks can cause absolute chaos when the target is something like Elon Musk’s Platform.
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After the X Social Media platform, previously known as Twitter, suffered numerous interruptions on March 10, Elon Musk was quick to blame a “massive online attack” and thought that either a “large, coordinated and/or a place” is involved. Now, a main suspect has appeared as a pro-paletal hackivist collective known as Dark Storm claims responsibility for getting X below. How this relates to Musk by telling Larry Kudlow during an interview on the Fox business network that the attack was traced to “IP addresses originating in the Ukrainian area” remains unclear.
However, Storm Dark is known to use tactics that are very similar to a group related to Russia, called Killnet, who also had a history of attacking Western objectives, and Ukraine support organizations, before becoming a more general service of leases. Storm Dark itself was first noticed in 2023 and attacked NATO countries, Israel and Large-scale DDOS campaigns, as well as Ransomware attacks.
Dark Storm took responsibility for cyber attacks X on his telegram channel. “Twitter is taken offline from the Dark Storm team,” she posted using the old name for X AS, one assumes, a sign of disregard against Musk. The group also shared photos from the check host, which is often used by DDOS attack groups to prove that an attack is occurring as it illustrates the availability of the site from numerous global servers.
Oded Vanunu, the main technologist and leader of the product’s vulnerability at the checkpoint, said, “Revival of Dark Storm team underlines the growing cyber threat against key internet platforms and critical infrastructure. For users, this means possible interruptions of service, unproductive and limited access to the websites and essential applications.”
What check the hosts of the host, or actually the telegram posts, cannot do is prove that the dark storm is actually after denial of the X attacks. This is a developing story and will be updated as more facts appear.
The attribution of internet attacks is essentially complex, say security experts for x ddos
The attribution of online attacks a specific nation, or even a separate group, is essentially complex. Numerous security experts who have reached me in the course of the attack on X have agreed. “DDOS attacks are a common tactic and are even offered as a service,” said Chad Cragle, the leading information security officer at Deepwatch, “The Final Attribute requires detailed forensic analysis that goes beyond the basic tracking of IP.” The fact that Dark Storm has taken responsibility for the attack should not be considered a final evidence, according to Cragle. The actual cause of the interruptions X will require independent verification, and this will not be easy without direct access to the target infrastructure, in this case X. “Tests from X and by attackers claiming the loan look very limited,” said J Stephen Kowski, the leading field technology official in Slashnext Email+. However, according to Tom Parker, the main technology official in Netspi, “the size of this incident strongly suggests the inclusion of a sophisticated threat actor”, whether nation-state or hackivist in nature. “We have to admit that attributing an attack of this scale are extremely difficult,” Parker concluded, “precisely because such opponents are very capable of concealing their tracks.” One thing that Parker was very clear is that we all have to be “extremely careful about the story of fingers and Saber shocked without clear and convincing evidence to demonstrate skills, motifs and likely to benefit for the party involved”.