{"id":104842,"date":"2025-03-10T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/elon-musk-assures-that-the-social-network-undergoes-a-massive-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T22:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:45:01","slug":"elon-musk-assures-that-the-social-network-undergoes-a-massive-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/elon-musk-assures-that-the-social-network-undergoes-a-massive-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk assures that the social network undergoes a &#8220;massive cyber attack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/6300\/4300\/556\/0\/75\/0\/da3703a_ftp-import-images-1-fqnxqvwyf6vx-5279937-01-06.jpg 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/6300\/4300\/600\/0\/75\/0\/da3703a_ftp-import-images-1-fqnxqvwyf6vx-5279937-01-06.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/6300\/4300\/664\/0\/75\/0\/da3703a_ftp-import-images-1-fqnxqvwyf6vx-5279937-01-06.jpg 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/6300\/4300\/700\/0\/75\/0\/da3703a_ftp-import-images-1-fqnxqvwyf6vx-5279937-01-06.jpg 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/6300\/4300\/800\/0\/75\/0\/da3703a_ftp-import-images-1-fqnxqvwyf6vx-5279937-01-06.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Elon Musk, \u00e0 Paris, le 16\u00a0juin 2023\u00a0; et le logo de X, sur un \u00e9cran, \u00e0 Paris, le\u00a024\u00a0juillet 2023.\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/03\/10\/0\/0\/6300\/4300\/664\/0\/75\/0\/da3703a_ftp-import-images-1-fqnxqvwyf6vx-5279937-01-06.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk, in Paris, June 16, 2023; And the X logo, on a screen, in Paris, July 24, 2023.\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Elon Musk, in Paris, June 16, 2023; And the X logo, on a screen, in Paris, July 24, 2023.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Alain Jocard \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \"><em>&#8220;There was <\/em>[et il y a encore]<em>  A massive cyber attack against X &#8220;<\/em>said on Monday, March 10, Elon Musk, the owner of the social network, after hours of problems of access to the platform reported by thousands of users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \"><em>&#8220;We are attacked every day, but this attack was carried out with a lot of resources&#8221;<\/em>he said. <em>\u201cIt is either a major and coordinated group or a country. Tracking in progress\u2026 \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">Elon Musk published this message in the comments of another post establishing a link between the demonstrations against the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE), which the billionaire directs, the Tesla stores which have been <em>&#8220;Attacked&#8221;<\/em> And the current failure on X, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__sub-title\">Claim on Telegram<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">Later in the day, Mr. Musk assured, on the set of Fox Business, that the attack was linked to <em>&#8220;IP addresses located in the Ukraine region&#8221;<\/em>.<strong> <\/strong>An assertion which actually does not give any indication on the origin of a possible attack: massive attacks of the \u201cdenial of service\u201d type generally use networks of infected machines, making the origin of their sponsor almost impossible to determine.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<div class=\"catcher__content\"><span class=\"catcher__title catcher__title--hide\">Read also |<\/span><span class=\"catcher__desc\">  <span class=\"icon__premium\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span>    Anti-Musk and Anti-Trump mobilizations turn their back on large social networks <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"3412936\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/pixels\/article\/2025\/03\/08\/les-mobilisations-anti-musk-et-anti-trump-tournent-le-dos-aux-grands-reseaux-sociaux_6577322_4408996.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">An attack on X was well claimed in the evening by the Telegram channel of a group calling itself &#8220;Dark Storm team&#8221;, without it being possible to say whether the claim is authentic or opportunistic. This recent creation group, which says it is supporting the Palestinian cause, also acts for villainous motifs and has <em>&#8220;Most likely&#8221;<\/em> links with Russia, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orangecyberdefense.com\/fileadmin\/global\/CyberIntelligenceBureau\/Gangs_Investigations\/DARKSTORMTEAM\/DarkStormTeam-EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nouvelle fen\u00eatre\">According to Orange Cyberfense<\/a>.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph \">The X service experienced several peaks of disturbances, between 11 a.m. in Paris on Monday, and 7 p.m. In the early evening, the functioning of the platform seemed to have returned to normal. The last large wave of breakdowns of the social network had taken place in March 2023.<\/p>\n<section class=\"author\">\n<p class=\"author__detail\">  <span class=\"author__name\">The world with AFP<\/span>  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article__reactions\">                      Reuse this content   <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\">Tm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, in Paris, June 16, 2023; And the X logo, on a screen, in Paris, July 24, 2023. Alain Jocard \/ AFP &#8220;There was [et il y a encore] A massive cyber attack against X &#8220;said on Monday, March 10, Elon Musk, the owner of the social network, after hours of problems of access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23239,1811,4041,4159,3125,4160,2587,127,23240],"class_list":["post-104842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-assures","tag-attack","tag-cyber","tag-elon","tag-massive","tag-musk","tag-network","tag-social","tag-undergoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}