{"id":208303,"date":"2025-03-11T06:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/x-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-amid-dark-storms-ddos-claims"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:16:45","slug":"x-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-amid-dark-storms-ddos-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/x-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-amid-dark-storms-ddos-claims","title":{"rendered":"X hit by \u2018massive cyberattack\u2019 amid Dark Storm\u2019s DDoS claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.x-hit-by-massive-cyberattack-amid-dark-storms-ddos-claims2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare.<\/p>\n<p>While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a \u201cmassive cyberattack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1899149509407473825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Musk posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a \u201cmassive cyberattack.\u201d \u201cThere [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}