Why did Dark Storm Hackers takes X to Its Knees?
Tuesday, 11th March, 2025.
Tech is the new coke (Cocaine) of cartels, and weapon of mass destruction in seconds without physical handling of battle weapons, which is keeping governments, businesses, and corporations on their toes for defense and repelling.
Massive cyberattack distrupts X social media platform with IP addresses originating from Ukrain area. In the early hours of Monday 10th March, 2025, the social media X struggles under massive cyberattack from Dark Storm Hackers, causing it to be unaccessible for millions of its users across the globe. The inaccessible starts from dawn, around 5AM Eastern Time (ET), which causes f rustration for the users.
Elon Musk, the Billionaire who owns X, speaking in an interview with Fox Business Network states that the attack against X was massive as being done with a lot of resources, with IP addresses originating from Ukraine area.
Why using tech as weapon? One amidst other aims of cyberattack is operational distruption, especially when Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) malware attack is involve. With examination of the massive attack against X social media platform, cybersecurity experts reveals that the attack was multi-layered DDoS on X's servers. When cyberattack cause operational distruption, there would be loss on investment, and possibly tragic and unfortunate loss of lives, which are amidst why governments of various countries and concern corporations are on their toes.
Some hours after the massive attack on X social media platform, a Pro-Palestinian hacktivist known as Dark Storm hackers claims to be responsible for the massive attack. Dark Storm is a group of hacking team known to be pro-Palestinian, founded in 2023, with several attacks against countries like Israel and America through DDoS and ransomware attacks.
Why did Dark Storm the attack against X? The attack appears to be loud, more personal, and tactical as is quickly publicised by Dark Storm. Perhaps is a tactic against Ukraine. Despite the crying havoc of 3rd world war, it appears some people are daring it.
After the argument between Ukraine President Zelensky and US President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, Zelensky writes on X 'Our meeting in Washington at White House on Friday did not go the way it was supposed to be.' Elon Musk is known to be close to Trump and Putin, and after the verbal fight between Zelensky and Trump in the White House, few days later comes the massive cyberattack against X social media platform with claims that IP addresses originats from Ukraine area.
Cybersecurity and its breach is really a world topical issue. As the world continue to be digitalised, especially with AI, the tech industry continues to come up with innovations, and cybersecurity and its breach continues to be don't sleep situation as it all involve creating programs that performs the actions.
At Atflair World & Tech, we encourage individuals who are transitioning into tech, most especially our youngsters to learn and know how to code in order to have control at the backend of present digital world.