Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
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"it was 🇺🇦" = Musk's excuse/accusation = "it was Hunter Biden's laptop"
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Now all he has to do is get "the best investigator anyone has ever seen to lead an investigation". He has been languishing for want of a meaningful quest to waste airwaves, money & time.🙄
Can't secure servers against cyberattacks
Can't launch a rocket without rapid unscheduled disassembly
Can't manufacture a car that doesn't self-immolate
Can't hold a job unless he commandeers the company
I would think hackers capable of bringing down X are smart enough to use a VPN or whatever fancy hacker-y thing they use to hide their real IP address. This is just a ploy for more anti-Ukraine propaganda.
Anyone with the most basic knowledge of computer networking knows that's not how it works. Yet again he's very stupid, completely full of shit, or (likely) both.
At this point is anyone willing to admit the guy who sent the script-kiddies to root around in our personal info and financial support systems has all the cyber-expertise of a chopped salad?
Doesn't matter for that, a French company is shipping equipment to Ukraine for communications. Musk wants to abandon Ukraine, so they, of course, get the blame for attacking Twix.
With those threats Musk is devastating his own company. The Starlink brand is now toxic. No country will sink millions into satellite communications tech that can be yanked away on the whim of one childish guy whose politics are a danger to global peace.
Musk’s childish tweets have already cost Starlink multi-billions in contracts. If Starlink were operated like a normal company, Musk would have been removed from being CEO by the Board of Directors.
I'd appreciate how "the smartest man in the world" was so incredibly dense and predictable if he wasn't gutting our government when he wasn't swindling it out of billions of dollars.
Welfare Queen musk doesn’t know Jack about technology. He has people who do. musk just talks out of his ass because for the moment, the media is gobbling it up.
Er meint wahrscheinlich ip-Adressen von der Krim oder aus der besetzten Ost-Ukraine.
He probably means IP addresses from Crimea or occupied Eastern Ukraine.
My IP address can originate from any country I choose on my VPN. If Musk doesn’t know how IP addresses work, maybe he shouldn’t be putting his own networks in government buildings.
Next attack he'll say originates in Canada. Likely from within the fentanyl camps the Mexican Drug lords are operating here (if you believe Peter Navarro).
This administration will tell ANY lie in an attempt to discredit/undermine a nation, and further their fascist agenda.
“It’s important to recognize that IP attribution alone is not conclusive. Attackers frequently use compromised devices, VPNs, or proxy networks to obfuscate their true origin.”
If your IT sucks so bad that it can't withstand the alleged attack from a war torn country, I'm not sure it is a good idea to go on tv and tell everyone about it.
Eh, it’s the kind of message that works on the MAGA masses though. They won’t fact check it or think about it beyond surface deep - just react emotionally and target their hate in that direction.
I work in marketing too. It’s not complicated. His intended audience isnt buyers, or stakeholders. its the current global audience. Hes trying to villainize Ukraine to justify dropping Starlink. Same way he called Senator Kelly a traitor for visiting there. Propaganda implying Ukraine is our enemy.
I don't disagree with anything you are saying. The comment was strictly directed at the absurdity of claiming this while you are losing your empire in real time. I hope the fucker loses everything. You guys are literally reading too much into the observation.
DDoS attacks usually use thousands of compromised machines, and can hide behind a proxy/use vpn so they can appear to come from any geo. If you throttle or block by country or geo they just show up elsewhere, but it doesn't mean the traffic is specific to a geo or geos.
His misrepresentation is intentional. He doesn't need to show his work for his primary audience, either for this claim or his DOGE savings claims. It's more like "rich, smart guy says this thing so it must be true".
This is why @wired.com reporting is so crucial for our country right now.
I read yesterday that the hacking group claiming responsibility for the DDOS attack is known to have worked in support of Russia in the past. False flag?
How convenient trying to blame Ukraine. Boy for a super genius he sure doesn't understand how Cobalt and IP addresses work. But he's the president so looks like we're going to bomb Kiev for Putin now.
Elon Musk says a *lot* of things without any evidence to back up his claims. Accusing Ukraine of the cyberattack plays right into his/Trump’s plans to throw Ukraine to the wolves. (He also claimed that DOGE was finding billions of dollars in government fraud, which could not be backed up either. 🙄)
Yeah, because these hackers are sophisticated enough to attack X's servers, but not bright enough to use proxies and mask their genuine IP addresses and physical locations.
It's amazing to me how uneducated Musk is about IT issues. A simple VPN will give you a different IP address anywhere in the world. Just because the IP may have been from Ukraine, doesn't mean Ukraine orchestrated the attack. This is simple IT 101.
Artificial Intelligence is on many Social Media Sites. Many of those Sites are owned and controlled by billionaires. Is it possible, they'll use A.I to create lists of people opposed to MAGA? And share those lists and personal information to Purge Voter Rolls for upcoming Elections?
So the guy who's going through Everyone's personal information can't even secure his own site? JFC.& MAGA retards actually Trust this guy. Sad,but also somewhat humorous.
Thank you. And it’s about time that we all start saying this. Elon is not a genius. Elon is not a visionary. And more than anything else Elon is not an inventor.
5 things Elon Musk did while at DOGE:
1. Went on TV and said again the Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and 10% of payments are going to dead people.
2. Crashed Tesla stock
3. Tampered with X - to stop people sharing news of Tesla stock - and blamed Ukraine
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4. Lost business to
"4 European satellite firms are vying to replace Starlink in Ukraine
Souring relations between Washington and Kyiv have triggered calls for alternatives to Starlink"
I'm very surprised that the guy who repeatedly demonstrates that he has absolutely no understanding of technology, has yet again demonstrated that he has absolutely no understanding of technology.
The government is not established as a business for profit. It is theoretically "For the People". It is not as efficient as a business because it cannot selectively accept those that will be most productive in their quest for riches.
Hello WIRED. Thank you for your good reporting. Would you consider, however, not posting a picture of pee-lon, or that thing that has the audacity to sit in the people's house? We don't really need a picture of either of them. Just a thought. Take care
Trumpty-dumpty & his pet musk-rat (maybe the other way around), along with the pile of donkey shit once known as the US govt. have fucked this country up so badly as to be unrecognizable.
Honestly, I don't think it will ever recover. Civilization, a precarious entity in the nuclear age, is cooked.
“analysts see evidence that some X origin servers, which respond to web requests, weren't properly secured behind the company's Cloudflare DDoS protection and were publicly visible. As a result, attackers could target them directly. X has since secured the servers.”
Anonymous has been pretty clear that they did the attack and that they’ve been out to get Musk for a while. The return of Trump and is now a little buddy… the best thing out of this administration so far is that anonymous is back and functioning
His response is so predictable.
My concern is that there appears to be a very large number of people who actually believe the lies coming out of his mouth, and that of his Presidential gopher.
Musk is not a tech guy. He’s a vulture capitalist. He has only ever profited off the work or ideas of others. Even his original idea that made him rich was something someone else came up with and he was barely literate enough in code to cobble something awful together as a proof.
He had “Big Balls & Co.” hit X using VPNs and the like so they could blame this on Ukraine and further make more devastating moves to leave them defenseless.
Given Musks inability to secure his rockets and cars that malfunctioned or blew up unexpectedly, it seems likely that his allegations re the sources for his media ops security failures, should be questioned and viewed w/ skepticism, or perhaps check with big balls, to see if he knows anything?
I’m virtually computer illiterate but even I know IP addresses can be manipulated and mean diddly squat. Wait - that must mean I’m smarter than Musk 😂🤣😂🤣
Not 1 shred of evidence to support his claim has been provided as of now!
Elon Musk is lying yet again, potentially trying to find an excuse to cancel Starlink in Ukraine!
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Now all he has to do is get "the best investigator anyone has ever seen to lead an investigation". He has been languishing for want of a meaningful quest to waste airwaves, money & time.🙄
I love seeing people not wanting to drive Tesla's because the majority of humans think Musk is a Nazi and they don't like Nazi's.
Talk about FAFO.
Can't launch a rocket without rapid unscheduled disassembly
Can't manufacture a car that doesn't self-immolate
Can't hold a job unless he commandeers the company
What good is this loser
Convenient to scapegoat Ukraine for this but experts say not able to tell
LIAR
#ElonIsATraitor
#MuskIsANaziTraitor
https://www.livemint.com/companies/carlos-slim-cuts-ties-with-elon-musk-s-starlink-invests-22-billion-in-independent-network-11741364444516.html
He probably means IP addresses from Crimea or occupied Eastern Ukraine.
Next attack he'll say originates in Canada. Likely from within the fentanyl camps the Mexican Drug lords are operating here (if you believe Peter Navarro).
This administration will tell ANY lie in an attempt to discredit/undermine a nation, and further their fascist agenda.
He knows this, and is lying.
This is why @wired.com reporting is so crucial for our country right now.
And people just wanted to be able to edit tweets.
What a tool…
To be honest, I think #incElon told his script kiddies to unplug some servers for a shitty #falseflag.
1. Went on TV and said again the Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and 10% of payments are going to dead people.
2. Crashed Tesla stock
3. Tampered with X - to stop people sharing news of Tesla stock - and blamed Ukraine
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March 10, 2025 - 4:17 pm
"4 European satellite firms are vying to replace Starlink in Ukraine
Souring relations between Washington and Kyiv have triggered calls for alternatives to Starlink"
https://thenextweb.com/news/4-european-satellite-firms-are-vying-to-replace-starlink-in-ukraine
https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lk25qhrv3c26
Such jargon 👍
…but I bet they wish they had.
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Honestly, I don't think it will ever recover. Civilization, a precarious entity in the nuclear age, is cooked.
“analysts see evidence that some X origin servers, which respond to web requests, weren't properly secured behind the company's Cloudflare DDoS protection and were publicly visible. As a result, attackers could target them directly. X has since secured the servers.”
My concern is that there appears to be a very large number of people who actually believe the lies coming out of his mouth, and that of his Presidential gopher.
Elon Musk is lying yet again, potentially trying to find an excuse to cancel Starlink in Ukraine!