Tech Desk 
Mar 11, 2025
Shortly after his renowned social media platform was hit by an outage in the US and the UK, Elon Musk has claimed that the X (formerly Twitter) outage was caused by a large-scale cyberattack.
Regarding the source and origin of the alleged cyberattack disrupting X services, the tech billionaire specified that the attack was carried with "a lot of resources."
"We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved," Musk stated in a post on X on Monday, according to Reuters.
Since he did not clarify what he meant by "a lot of resources", his remarks have drawn backlash and skepticism from the cybersecurity fraternity, with experts pointing out that the kind of cyberattack in question is called denials of service, which have various time been carried out by small groups or individuals.
Later in an interview with Fox Business Network's Larry Kudlow, he alleged that the attack was executed from IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.
An expert, privy to the matter, in the cybersecurity space contradicted with Musk's remarks, responding that the bigger portion of the rogue traffic battering X could be retraced to IP addresses in the United States, Vietnam, Brazil and other countries.
The source also highlighted that the rogue traffic chunk stemming directly from Ukraine was "insignificant."
