Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as ...

Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack can employ ...

Services at X Corp. (formerly Twitter) were heavily disrupted Monday after the company was targeted in a distributed ...

Elon Musk has now commented and claimed that "there was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X", which was "done with a ...

A massive denial of service attack linked to the notorious hacker group DarkStorm hit Elon Musk's social media platform X on ...

Hype aside, the facts on the ground make it look like an extremely large distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) was just carried out using mostly household appliances (145,607 of them!) ...

“What Mr. Musk has said is wholly unconvincing based on the evidence so far. It's pretty much garbage," Ciaran Martin, a ...

Social media platform X went down intermittently on Monday, with owner Elon Musk blaming an unusually powerful cyberattack.

Isik Mater, the director of research at NetBlocks, a company that tracks global internet connectivity, told NBC News that X ...

Platform outage monitor Downdetector said it had seen more than 350,000 reports of issues from US users on Monday.

Cyberattacks take many different forms, and while PayPal scam campaigns and infostealer malware pop up with alarming regularity, distributed denial of service attacks can cause absolute chaos when ...