Russia-Linked Group Claims X Cyberattack: Musk Points to Ukraine

• Nearly 40,000 users could not access the X platform during an outage.
• Dark Storm claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on X.
• Elon Musk suggested that the attack originated from IP addresses traced to the Ukraine area.

A cyberattack briefly took down X yesterday, March 10, preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform. Later, the Russia-backed hacking group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for the incident. Reports identified it as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a tactic designed to overload servers with excessive traffic, causing them to crash.

Thousands of users worldwide reported the outage. Downdetector logged nearly 40,000 complaints at the peak of the attack. Screenshots shared online showed failed connection attempts from multiple countries. However, platform owner Elon Musk later confirmed that user functionality was restored within hours.

Cybersecurity Experts Confirm the Attack

Cybersecurity firm SpyoSecure, which monitors online threats, confirmed the hacking group’s involvement. 

SpyoSecure mentioned in a post on X a now-deleted Telegram post in which Dark Storm’s leader took credit for the …

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