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X Under Cyberattack

18 points by sillypuddy 2y ago

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techpineapple 2y ago
Interesting hypothesis, any corroboration from a reputable source? Edit Hey! Look at that: https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025/03/x-outage-hacker-group-claims-it-took-down-former-twitter-platform.html https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025/03/x-outage-hacker-gro...
- sillypuddy 2y ago
  Who would corroborate a cyber attack like that?
- neuroelectron 2y ago
  Via @elonmusk on X > There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. > 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.
  - dragonwriter 2y ago
    Repeating the original thread source is not corroboration from another source, reputable or otherwise.
    - neuroelectron 2y ago
      Interesting theory. Why would Elon lie about a cyberattack?
      - techpineapple 2y ago
        [flagged]
      - zzzeek 2y ago
        to cover up how incompetent his company is after he fired all the A-list engineers
      - dragonwriter 2y ago
        Why would a prominent member of a government administration with a central narrative of being besieged by (particularly internal) enemies which necessitates taking extreme action to liberare the country lie about a large scale attack directed at one of the things most publicly associated with them? The reasons are quite obvious.
- pityJuke 2y ago
  Nice joke, but on a serious note I can totally see Elon being told this, or hallucinating this, but I'm not particularly convinced that this actually happened. Waiting for third party cybersec firms. Also I just saw a screenshot that indicated Twitter is still fronted by Cloudflare (I honestly thought that was a temporary measure to bypass the Brazil ban [1]), and now I believe this even less [0]. [0]: https://bsky.app/profile/chrisvannini.com/post/3ljzzcb2wdc2j https://bsky.app/profile/chrisvannini.com/post/3ljzzcb2wdc2j [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582046
  - jsheard 2y ago
    IIRC they only routed LATAM traffic through Cloudflare before, but it looks like they're using CF everywhere now.
    - pityJuke 2y ago
      Yeah, I'm not going to rule out that they migrated /to/ mitigate a cyberattack, but again, holding out for third parties here.

18 points by sillypuddy 2y ago

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Interesting hypothesis, any corroboration from a reputable source? Edit Hey! Look at that: https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025/03/x-outage-hacker-group-claims-it-took-down-former-twitter-platform.html https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025/03/x-outage-hacker-gro...

sillypuddy 2y ago
Who would corroborate a cyber attack like that?
neuroelectron 2y ago
Via @elonmusk on X > There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. > 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.
- dragonwriter 2y ago
  Repeating the original thread source is not corroboration from another source, reputable or otherwise.
  - neuroelectron 2y ago
    Interesting theory. Why would Elon lie about a cyberattack?
    - techpineapple 2y ago
      [flagged]
    - zzzeek 2y ago
      to cover up how incompetent his company is after he fired all the A-list engineers
    - dragonwriter 2y ago
      Why would a prominent member of a government administration with a central narrative of being besieged by (particularly internal) enemies which necessitates taking extreme action to liberare the country lie about a large scale attack directed at one of the things most publicly associated with them? The reasons are quite obvious.
pityJuke 2y ago
Nice joke, but on a serious note I can totally see Elon being told this, or hallucinating this, but I'm not particularly convinced that this actually happened. Waiting for third party cybersec firms. Also I just saw a screenshot that indicated Twitter is still fronted by Cloudflare (I honestly thought that was a temporary measure to bypass the Brazil ban [1]), and now I believe this even less [0]. [0]: https://bsky.app/profile/chrisvannini.com/post/3ljzzcb2wdc2j https://bsky.app/profile/chrisvannini.com/post/3ljzzcb2wdc2j [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582046
- jsheard 2y ago
  IIRC they only routed LATAM traffic through Cloudflare before, but it looks like they're using CF everywhere now.
  - pityJuke 2y ago
    Yeah, I'm not going to rule out that they migrated /to/ mitigate a cyberattack, but again, holding out for third parties here.