WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have not determined who was behind an apparent cyberattack on the social media site X that limited access to the platform for thousands of users, according to a Trump administration official familiar with the ongoing investigation into the matter.
Monday’s outage was described as a cyberattack by the official, who was not authorized to comment publicly on the matter and spoke Tuesday on the condition of anonymity. The official added that the Republican administration takes all cyberattacks against American companies seriously but underscored that the U.S. government had not gleaned any specific intelligence about who might have been behind the attack.
The comments came after Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and a top adviser to President Donald Trump, claimed in an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” show that the cyberattackers had “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” without going into detail on what that might mean.
Cybersecurity experts quickly pointed out, however, that this doesn’t necessarily mean that the attack originated in Ukraine.
Good.
Maybe they should ask CISA to… oh.
I wonder if the winding down of US Cyber Reach against Russia being diminished had something to do with it…
Putin: “You’re not supposed to get Twitter, you idiots!”
Would this technically count as a false flag?
I have no idea.
We sure it wasn’t just incompetence?
I seem to remember X basically DDoSing themselves with their rate limit changes, so no not sure at all
I’m not, outages and mistakes happen all the time (especially when your boss is an overbearing asshole, causing mistakes to be swept under the rug out of fear instead of corrected).
Yeah at this point I’m surprised you need to stack it before it’ll stop working.
False flag. Put the blame on ukraine. pressure them harder.
trump, putin and muski are so transparent
Musk probably did it to himself to muster support
The group responsible has already claimed responsibility.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the agencies simply didn’t have the manpower or competence to investigate it even with most of the work already done for them.
Multiple groups claimed credit for it.
Same as pretty much every Cyber attack.
Even when it’s not a cyber attack, someone is going to claim credit.
It was the spirit of justice and fuck you.
Sounds like an inside job. Has anyone asked Adrian Dittman?
heroes, that’s who
Anonymous woke up this week…
According to Anonymous it wasn’t Anonymous but if it were Anonymous they wouldn’t say it was, but Anonymous is also pretty splintered since a lot of them supported Trump and Israel while some supported the opposition.
EDIT: Anonymous has now claimed credit for the attack
Isn’t their whole thing that anyone can be anonymous?
But anybody acting in a group with a name is not Anonymous, which would technically apply to the Anonymous group who hosted servers and official websites at one point, meaning Anonymous is not Anonymous. But some of Anonymous administrators and organizers were named, and were still recognized as Anonymous.
Its the same concept as Antifa: there are some well known people involved in groups but generally its just an umbrella term.
Antifa isn’t an organization. It’s a movement and concept. I think that’s what so many people fail to understand.
As you say, there are people who are associated with it, but it doesn’t have a headquarters per se.
I believe the cause was digital heroes.
It was Russia lol, they are looking everywhere but there.
