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?

  • Tempus Fugit@midwest.socialEnglish
    40·
    16 days ago

    I wouldn’t believe a word out of this known liars mouth without evidence. It makes little sense for Ukraine to bite the hand that feeds them, so to say. It could very easily be Russia trying to frame them. Evidence is necessary!

    • _wizard
      6·
      16 days ago

      How would one find evidence if the user utilized a VPN?

      • ivn@jlai.lu
        16·
        16 days 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.

        • givesomefucksEnglish
          5·
          16 days ago

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