The internet intelligence team at Cisco's ThousandEyes tells WIRED in a statement, “During the disruptions, ThousandEyes observed network conditions that are characteristic of a DDoS attack ...

A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal web traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of ...

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.

Today, the group posted to their Telegram channel that they were conducting DDoS attacks against Twitter, sharing screenshots and links [1, 2] to the check-host.net site as proof of the attack.

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 ...

In an online interview, Meyer made the following points: This botnet is much larger than what we're used to seeing in DDoS attacks (the only precedent I have in mind is an attack from 2022 right ...

While Elon Musk claimed the “massive cyberattack” impacting X’s service had originated from Ukrainian IP addresses, security researchers note that this isn’t conclusive as attackers often ...

Pro-Palestinian hacker group Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on the platform, according to a public Telegram post. The group is known for primarily targeting countries and ...

Reports then varied throughout the day, with outage reports dipping and then returning as the DDoS attack targeted X in waves. As of 7 p.m. EDT, X was mostly back online, with a declining number ...

Telecommunication bore 43% of the global network DDoS attack volume last year. Financial institutions followed the communication sector at 30%. Notably, the finance sector experienced the highest ...

Twitter executive Elon Musk, who renamed the platform X in 2022 after purchasing it, confirmed in a post on the platform that ...

Tech oligarch Elon Musk has drawn criticism from cyber security experts following unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine was behind an apparent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on his ...