Security researchers do not buy musk on the electronic attack that brought down x

One day after the fall of X for hours, security researchers throw cold water on the general Elon Musk comments about who might be behind the DDOS attack. On Monday, given that X is still struggling for it, Musk said that the site was dropped by a “huge electronic attack” carried out by “a large and coordinated group and/or country. Later that day, with with Fox News, He said the attack involves “IP addresses that arise in the Ukraine region.”

He did not provide evidence of any claim. But in a new report Security researchers presented a completely different viewpoint. Security experts, whom the publication met, said that they only saw few evidence that the Ukrainian IP addresses played an important role in the DDOS attack, where one of the researchers said that the country was not even in the best 20 countries originating.

The report also indicates that although Musk asserts that there are “a lot of resources”, X has unintentionally left its systems with a DDOS attack like the attack on Monday. X Origin servers, which respond to web requests, have not been properly secured behind the company’s Cloudflare DDOS protection and was publicly visible, ” Wireless He writes. As a result, the attackers can target them directly. X has since secured the servers. “

It is worth noting that this will not be the first time that Musk blames the “electronic attack” that is not specified when facing an embarrassing failure in X. last year, Musk “Huge DDOS attack” to break down the planned live broadcast with Donald Trump, who was running for the presidency at that time. Musk never explained how the DDOS attack could just fall on the site. I later mentioned that there was no such attack.

X did not respond to a request for comment.