A group of “Hackivists’ proportine claims the world attack by X of which Musk accused Ukraine

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 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 lie the service of, cybercounts, organized in a large and coordinated group, would have used many resources, according to the owner of the platform, Elon Musk. The businessman pointed out that it was an attack “from the Ukraine area”, without pointing to anyone in particular or any firm entity.

The Proportian Hackivist Dark Storm Team, which usually focuses on Israel’s party entities, has attributed the responsibility of promoting the attack of denial of service (DDOS) that managed to disconnect X, as indicated in its Telegram channel, where they have provided screenshots that show it.

This team of malicious actors has also shared links to the Check-Host.net website, which allows users to check the availability of a page from different servers worldwide. As Bleeping Computer remembers, this resource It is commonly used during ddos ​​attacks To show 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 address, they ask them to complete a form for their authentication.

The same group has claimed attacks on other websites of different entities. On March 8 he also claimed to have lying The website of the Ministry of Equality of Spaincoinciding with International Women’s Day.