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The attack was claimed by Pro-Palestinian cyberhacking group "Dark Storm Team" with ties to Russia https://www.zdnet.com/article/x-outages-reportedly-caused-by-massive-cyberattack/ https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-845467 https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-updates-2042333 This kind of attack is launched from compromised groups of computers known as botnets, the location of which has no relevance to the actual attacker's location. https://www.ic3.gov/CrimeInfo/Botnet-DDoS https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-botnet/ https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/what-is-botnet
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