'Massive cyberattack from Ukraine!' Musk alleges after X goes down

Billionaire Elon Musk has criticized Ukraine as  massive cyberattac has taken place from Ukraine for repeated outages witnessed on his microblogging platform X on Monday. The platform suffered intermittent outages throughout the day, going offline, restoring services, and crashing again according to the media reports.

 Massive cyberattack to bring down the X system

Speaking to Fox Business, Musk said that 'they are not are not sure exactly what happed, but there was a massive cyberattack to bring down the X system with IP addresses forming in the Ukraine area.' Then is what happed on Monday On Monday, X reported several outages with numerous druggies being unfit to load their feed. Downdetector, a website that oversees outages on different spots and platforms, showed thousands of outages reports that were originally spiked.

Cyberattack was responsible for the outage

The number of reports was at 39,021 in the US by 10 am ET. still, it returned to normal for a many hours, and also a alternate swell was reported, which carried on throughout noon. According to Musk, a cyberattack was responsible for the outage, with implicit involvement of " a large, coordinated group or a country" with a lot of coffers. While he didn't clarify what he meant by a" lot of coffers," his reflections have come under scrutiny by cyber security experts, who have claimed that similar acts, also known as' denial of service' have frequently been carried out by individualities or small groups.

Hackers were traced to Ukraine

He latterly claimed that the IP addresses of the hackers were traced to Ukraine. According to a report by the Associated Press, cybersecurity experts dismissed Musk's claims that tracing the IP meant chancing the definitive source of the attack. They also refocused out that this does not inescapably mean that an attack began in Ukraine.