Disputing Musk's Claims

Security researchers are questioning Elon Musk's assertion that a large-scale cyberattack originating from Ukraine was responsible for taking down X. According to a report by Wired, researchers have found little evidence to support Musk's claims, with one expert stating that Ukraine was not even among the top 20 countries of origin for the attack.

The researchers suggest that X may have inadvertently left its systems vulnerable to the attack, which could have been prevented with proper security measures. Specifically, X's origin servers were not properly secured behind Cloudflare's DDoS protection and were publicly visible, allowing attackers to target them directly.

This is not the first time Musk has blamed a cyberattack for a failure of X's systems. Last year, he claimed that a massive DDoS attack was responsible for crashing a planned livestream with Donald Trump, but an investigation by The Verge found no evidence of such an attack.

The incident highlights the importance of transparency and accountability in cybersecurity, particularly for high-profile platforms like X. As the investigation continues, it remains to be seen whether Musk's claims will be substantiated or if the true cause of the outage will be revealed.