Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a dominant method of cyberattack linked to sociopolitical events.

DDoS attacks don't take much technical expertise to launch these days. Defending against them is more complicated.

Much like a canary in a coal mine, the rise of AI-enhanced DDoS attacks signals a shift toward more adaptive and complex ...

When it popped back up, Elon Musk said the site had been hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote.

The botnet, tracked under the name Eleven11bot, first came to light in late February when researchers inside Nokia’s Deepfield Emergency Response Team observed large numbers of geographically ...

Most of the IP addresses participating, Nokia researcher Jérôme Meyer told me, had never been seen engaging in DDoS attacks. Besides a 30,000-node botnet seeming to appear overnight, another ...

Updates added to the end of the article. The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS ...

A pro-Palestine group appears to have claimed responsibility for a major DDoS attack on social media site X (formerly Twitter) yesterday. According to data from Downdetector, tens of thousands of ...

Details remain vague beyond Musk's post, but rumors were circulating that X was under a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. In 2025, the number of DDOS attacks have spiked, partly ...

The new protection service comes as a response to the growing threat of DDoS attacks targeting game servers, which can disrupt gameplay and community events. By implementing state-of-the-art security ...