Hackivist group Dark Storm claims to be behind the attacks that invalidated X for a few hours

The Hackivist Group Dark Storm Team The massagram cyberbraats of denial of services (ddos) against the social network X (formerly Twitter) on Monday has been attributed through Telegram, which has led to temporary system falls and has paralyzed it for a few hours throughout the world.

Tens of thousands of users around the world reported on Monday of intermittent cuts in X, as reflected in the Downdector error monitoring website. This fall It occurred worldwide and affected different countries, such as Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and India.

The falls took place at different times of the day and lasted only a few minutes each. To execute the attack and lay the social network service, cybercriminals, organized in a large and coordinated group, would have employed many resources, according to the platform owner, Elon Musk.

The propalestine hacktivist group Dark Storm Team, who usually focuses on Israel’s party entities, has attributed the responsibility of promoting the attack of denial of service (ddos) that managed to disconnect xas he pointed out on his Telegram channel, where they have contributed screenshots that evidence it.

This team of malicious actors has also shared links to the Check-Host.net website, which allows users to buy the availability of a page from different servers worldwide. As Bleeping Computer remembers, this resource is usually used during ddos ​​attacks to demonstrate that they are taking place.

This medium has also indicated that X has launched the services of the cloudflare company, which provides specific protection against DDOS atques. Thus, when users try to access certain parts of the system and arrive from A potentially suspicious IP addressask them to complete a form for authentication.