X Goes Down Worldwide as Hacktivists Launch Major DDoS Assault
Dark Storm Hacktivist Group Claims Responsibility for DDoS Attacks on X
On Monday, X (formerly Twitter) suffered multiple global outages due to what owner Elon Musk described as a “massive cyberattack.”
While Musk did not explicitly confirm a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack, he suggested that the attack involved “a large, coordinated group and/or a country.”
Dark Storm Claims Responsibility
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist group, Dark Storm, has taken credit for the attack, posting screenshots and links to Check-host.net on their Telegram channel as proof of their activity.
Dark Storm post on Telegram
Check-host.net is a website that allows users to check site availability globally, often used by threat actors during DDoS campaigns to demonstrate an attack’s effectiveness.
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X Enables Cloudflare DDoS Protections
In response, X enabled Cloudflare’s DDoS protection, which now presents CAPTCHAs to suspicious IP addresses making excessive requests.
- help.x.com currently requires a CAPTCHA for all requests, suggesting Cloudflare is filtering out attack traffic.
Cloudflare captcha on X.com
Source: BleepingComputer
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Hacktivist DDoS Attacks: A Growing Threat
Hacktivists have repeatedly disrupted major platforms using botnets and other high-resource DDoS techniques.
- In 2024, the U.S. indicted two Sudanese brothers suspected of operating Anonymous Sudan, a hacktivist group that successfully disrupted Microsoft, Cloudflare, and OpenAI through similar DDoS attacks.
As hacktivist cyber campaigns continue to evolve, large-scale DDoS attacks on major platforms are expected to persist.
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