More than 40,000 users reported they could not access X on Monday, according to data from tracking website Downdetector.com.

In a now-deleted post on Telegram, a hacking group called Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for the attack.

Do you think it really was a group in Ukraine, or do you reckon that’s bullshit?

    • ivn@jlai.lu
      16·
      10 months ago

      You don’t DDOS through a VPN. The first D is for distributed, you do it from a multitude of devices, often hacked ones from a botnet. So DDOS attribution is hard. And if you want some scale you reflect the attack on some other machine that runs a service that allow for amplification, making attribution even harder.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        What would be hilarious is if they used starlink to ddos twitter, and that’s why it looks like Ukraine