{"id":656816,"date":"2025-03-11T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-caused-the-x-outage-that-musk-is-blaming-on-ukraine-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T23:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:46:43","slug":"what-caused-the-x-outage-that-musk-is-blaming-on-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-caused-the-x-outage-that-musk-is-blaming-on-ukraine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#What caused the X outage that Musk is blaming on Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40ce68cc2d3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40ce68cc2d3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-caused-the-x-outage-that-musk-is-blaming-on-ukraine-2\/#X_adds_to_mounting_problems_for_Musk\" >X adds to mounting problems for Musk<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2025%2F03%2FUntitled-design-33.jpg&amp;signature=133fb98088ddb5251a10f96fd6f81f40\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social media<\/a> platform X was hit by a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of outages yesterday in what its owner Elon Musk has called a \u201cmassive cyberattack\u201d stemming from Ukraine. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysts believe the disruption was caused by botnets \u2014 but finding the culprits will be a tall order. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The outages began at around 14:00 CET and lasted for most of the afternoon, trailing off at around 18:00, according to <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Down Detector<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. While the outages <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared to have flatlined overnight, there was an uptick in reports of downtime starting from 08:00AM today up until the time of writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re not sure exactly what happened,\u201d Musk said during a Fox Business <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YIZFk8pxbG0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cBut there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system, with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a separate post on X, Musk said: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and\/or a country is involved.\u201d The multi-billionaire <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has not provided any evidence to back up his claims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toby Lewis, head of threat analysis at UK-based cybersecurity firm Darktrace, said the X outage appears to be a \u201cfairly standard DDoS attack\u201d, which involves many devices flooding a server or network with traffic to overwhelm and shut it down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese sorts of attacks are almost always delivered by botnets \u2014 globally distributed networks of computers that have been unknowingly recruited to take part in the attack, typically through some form of compromise or the use of malware,\u201d said Lewis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With botnets, hackers can control devices in a country without actually being there. So even if the IP addresses did originate Ukraine, as Musk claimed, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean the attack has any link to the country or its government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at Slovakian firm ESET, highlighted the method\u2019s ability to conceal the culprits\u2019 identities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDDoS attacks are a clever way of targeting a website without having to hack into the mainframe and therefore the perpetrators can remain largely anonymous and difficult to point a finger at,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"X_adds_to_mounting_problems_for_Musk\"><\/span>X adds to mounting problems for Musk<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 in a deal worth $44bn. Within a year, he had changed the platform\u2019s name to X, laid off around 80% of the company\u2019s staff and made <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sweeping changes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to its content moderation policies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since Musk took over, there have been a series of <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/12\/tech\/twitter-breaking\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">glitches<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the platform. X\u2019s last major outage was in August last year, when hundreds of thousands of listeners were <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2024-musk-trump-x-interview-troubles-51dfc560065aae825e6bb3f826090e4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to access his interview with the then former US president Donald Trump. Musk later blamed the incident on a \u201cmassive\u201d DDoS attack.\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether yesterday\u2019s attack had political or ideological motivations will be virtually impossible to ascertain. However, it comes amid a swathe of backlash against Musk, whose role in the US government and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">open support of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">far-right politicians<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is causing controversy and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anger<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tesla stock fell to a five-year low on Monday amid protests and <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20250303-dozen-teslas-torched-outside-french-dealership-authorities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arson attacks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against the EV brand, which many see as symbolic of Musk, the company\u2019s CEO and founder. A report last week found that <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/uk-new-car-sales-drop-1-february-industry-data-shows-2025-03-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tesla sales<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Germany fell 70% in February, off the back of a 60% sales slump in January.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysts have linked Tesla\u2019s fallout to Musk\u2019s increasingly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">incendiary<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> behaviour. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Europe, Musk has openly endorsed Germany\u2019s far-right AfD, even hosting an interview on X where he <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heaped praise<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the party\u2019s leader Alice Weidel. At the Trump inauguration on January 20, Musk made a controversial hand gesture, which many likened to a Nazi salute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere is no doubt that \u2018the Musk factor\u2019 has influenced Tesla\u2019s sales in the same way as his reputation impacted Twitter when he bought it and rebranded it as X,\u201d Andrew Fellows, an automotive industry expert at Star, a tech consultancy firm, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">previously told TNW<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musk\u2019s antics have put Starlink, a subsidiary of his firm SpaceX, in hot water too. <\/span><span>Officials in Europe <\/span><span>are considering replacing<\/span><span> the satellite internet service with a homegrown alternative amid mounting concerns about putting the continent\u2019s security in the hands of a single, private network whose owner has direct ties to the US government.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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