Hello my dear hackingblogs reader! Thousands of people worldwide were unable to access the social networking platform X, which is owned by Elon Musk, due to three outages that occurred on Monday, March 10. Elon attributed the cyberattack on “IP addresses in Ukraine” shortly after the disturbances.
Mode Of Taking Down X : DDos
The Dark Storm hacktivist organisation claims to be responsible for the DDoS attacks that caused several X global outages on Monday, which affected over 40,000 users globally. As a result, the firm installed Cloudflare DDoS safeguards.
Elon Musk’s social networking site, X, had a series of failures on Monday (March 10), affecting access for thousands of users throughout the world.
The help.x.com area of the website now shows a Cloudflare captcha for all queries, as demonstrated below.
On Monday, Downdetector, a platform monitor, received more than 1.6 million reports of difficulties with the social networking site from users worldwide. Dark Storm has claimed responsibility for the X hack in its Telegram channel. “Twitter has been taken offline by Dark Storm Team,” it said, adopting the original the name for X as a symbol of rebellion against Musk.
The organisation also posted pictures from Check Host, which is commonly used by DDoS attack groups to demonstrate that an assault is taking place since it shows site availability from numerous worldwide servers.
About The Dark Strom Hacking Group
The gang, founded in 2023, is well-known for its sophisticated cyber warfare strikes and successful attacks on high-security networks. It is also thought to have a pro-Palestinian agenda. In fact, in a post last month, the organisation promised to launch a wave of attacks against the official websites of NATO countries, Israel, and states that support Israel.Dark Storm has successfully targeted important infrastructure, including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Israel’s Haifa Port, and the UAE Ministry of Defence.
The motives for Dark Storm’s targeting of X are said to be related to Elon Musk’s support for Israel, which has made him a politically problematic figure. The group’s operations go beyond ideology, as they earn from offering hack services like DDoS assaults and database breaches.
X Failing At Handling CyberAttacks
In an effort to pressure Elon Musk into providing his Starlink service in their nation, a small gang of hackers known as Anonymous Sudan pulled the website offline for hours in over a dozen nations in 2023.
The fact that two guys were arrested in 2024 for being the group’s ringleaders demonstrates that, with the correct equipment and knowledge, hackers may use DDoS assaults to disrupt X from anywhere in the world.
Is Anonymous Targeting Musk’s X ?
The hacktivist movement Anonymous took credit for a major cyberattack on X (previously Twitter) on March 10, 2025. According to the organisation, the incident was part of a campaign against the rise of dictatorship and fascism in the US. On their website and social media accounts, they published a statement outlining their role in the cyberattack.
