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Thread #173796   Message #4218866
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
11-Mar-25 - 12:53 PM
Thread Name: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
Oh, and about that alleged cyberattack on Xitter, here's something from a sidebar to a separate story in The Register:

X offline, Elon blames Ukrainian IPs

Gandi's not the only one having a bad day. Elon Musk's X, the site better known as Twitter, faced intermittent outages on Monday, which the billionaire blamed on a cyberattack.

There were four major spikes in complaints on Downdetector.com from netizens unable to access X over the past few hours. Dark Storm, a pro-Palestinian activist group, reportedly claimed responsibility, though Elon has his own theories.

"We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyberattack that tried to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area," he told Fox News on Monday. Uh-huh. Interesting timing right after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Musk clashed with Poland's foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski over the use of the SpaceX supremo's Starlink satellite broadband in Ukraine.

Normal services on the social media site have been resumed, the Tesla tycoon claimed.

That sounds like a Distributed Denial-Of-Service attack to me. There's multiple ways to cause Ukrainian IP addresses to be used, including using a botnet of compromised Ukranian systems, or a botnet where its bots are programmed to send packets with faked Ukrainian IP addresses; the location of the botnet controller remains hidden in either case. But that wouldn't be sufficiently newsworthy for Agent X, and digging further would require thought and nontrivial effort .... y'know, the sort of thing that was being done in hot pursuit of those active hostile incursions into the US govt's computers before the pursuers got abruptly DOGE'd.