On Monday, many X users were unable to access Elon Musk’s popular social media app. This was reportedly due to a cyberattack from DarkStorm, a hacker group that targeted Musk over his “blatant fascism” and “lack of humanity.”

From Cybernews. Using the hashtag #takedowntwitter (the site’s former name before Musk bought the platform in October 2022), a Bluesky user who goes by the name ‘Puck Arks’ posted that a pro-Palestinian hacker group known as the Dark Storm Team has laid claim to Monday morning’s interruptions.

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“#DarkStorm has confirmed that the DDOS attack against Twitter will continue throughout the day as a protest against Musk and Trump,” they posted …

Musk’s platform has been experiencing intermittent outages worldwide since about 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time, impacting roughly 40,000 users in the US at its 10:00 a.m. peak, and about 10,800 X users in the UK.

“Due to Elon Musks and Donald Trumps blatant fascism and lack of humanity we as a digital army for the people will continue our peaceful DDOS protests against X formerly known as Twitter. Thank you for your love and support,” Puck Arks in said his third post addressing the disruptions.

Musk commenting on the outage said his platform was in the process of tracing the origin of the attacks …

“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,” Musk said.

The alleged distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which flood a target’s servers with thousands of traffic requests (often using automated bots), come after a weekend of live protests hit Tesla dealerships across the US decrying Musk and his latest DOGE policies. …

Musk on his social media platform this weekend, blamed billionaires George Soros and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman of bankrolling the “Tesla Takedown” protests through their ActBlue organization, citing an unnamed investigation. …

Who is Dark Storm?

According to a cyber risk intelligence report by SecurityScorecard from 2023, Dark Storm has been busy claiming attacks “on targets both inside Israel and out” since the war in Gaza, focusing on taking down Israeli infrastructure and boasting about its attacks on a Telegram channel it created in August 2023.

The Persian-speaking group has not only targeted the Israeli government, local municipalities, and sensitive industries, but is also known for claiming distributed denial-of-service attacks on John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and Los Angeles Airport (LAX), as well as Snapchat. …

SecurityScorecard researchers say Dark Storm shows “commercial motivations in addition to political ones,” and … has begun advertising itself as a “cybercrime-as-a-service,” complete with a menu of hacking services.

“For much of its history, it [Dark Storm] has targeted NATO member states and others that have declared their support for Ukraine,” suggesting Russian geopolitical interests, the researchers said. …

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