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2025-03-11 03:21:20 UTC - HELPFUL
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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 https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/x-users-report-login-troubles-as-dark-storm-claims-cyberattack https://www.themirror.com/tech/tech-news/breaking-twitter-faces-third-outage-1022790.amp This kind of attack is launched from compromised groups of computers known as botnets, the location of which has no relevance to the attacker's location https://www.ic3.gov/CrimeInfo/Botnet-DDoS https://www.radware.com/cyberpedia/ddospedia/ddos-meaning-what-is-ddos-attack/ 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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