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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have not determined who was behind an apparent cyberattack on the social media site X that limited access to the platform for thousands of users, according to a Trump administration official familiar with the ongoing investigation into the matter.

Monday’s outage was described as a cyberattack by the official, who was not authorized to comment publicly on the matter and spoke Tuesday on the condition of anonymity. The official added that the Republican administration takes all cyberattacks against American companies seriously but underscored that the U.S. government had not gleaned any specific intelligence about who might have been behind the attack.

The comments came after Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and a top adviser to President Donald Trump, claimed in an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” show that the cyberattackers had “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” without going into detail on what that might mean.

Cybersecurity experts quickly pointed out, however, that this doesn’t necessarily mean that the attack originated in Ukraine.

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[-] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 6 hours ago
[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 28 points 12 hours ago

Maybe they should ask CISA to... oh.

[-] Gigameister@lemmy.world 47 points 13 hours ago

I wonder if the winding down of US Cyber Reach against Russia being diminished had something to do with it.....

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 10 points 12 hours ago

Putin: "You're not supposed to get Twitter, you idiots!"

[-] Gigameister@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

Would this technically count as a false flag?

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 1 points 11 hours ago

I have no idea.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago

We sure it wasn't just incompetence?

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 12 points 11 hours ago

I seem to remember X basically DDoSing themselves with their rate limit changes, so no not sure at all

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 10 points 12 hours ago

I'm not, outages and mistakes happen all the time (especially when your boss is an overbearing asshole, causing mistakes to be swept under the rug out of fear instead of corrected).

[-] pageflight@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Yeah at this point I'm surprised you need to stack it before it'll stop working.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago

False flag. Put the blame on ukraine. pressure them harder.

trump, putin and muski are so transparent

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Musk probably did it to himself to muster support

[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago

The group responsible has already claimed responsibility.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

It was the spirit of justice and fuck you.

[-] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Sounds like an inside job. Has anyone asked Adrian Dittman?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 13 hours ago

heroes, that's who

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago

Anonymous woke up this week...

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 12 hours ago

I believe the cause was digital heroes.

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