Dark Storm Hackers Claim Responsibility for DDoS Attack on X

The pro-Palestinian hacker group Dark Storm Team has claimed responsibility for the large-scale disruption on the social network X that occurred on March 10.

The cybersecurity project SpyoSecure reported that the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was confirmed on Telegram by the leader of Dark Storm. The hackers posted a screenshot showing the lack of access to the social network from various parts of the world.

“Twitter is down by the Dark Storm team,” their post stated.

According to the service Downdetector, numerous outages on X were recorded over several hours.

Co-founder of the media project KrassenCast, Ed Krassenstein, published his correspondence with the head of the hacker group. The latter cited the reason for the attack as a “show of strength” without any political motives.

“Even more interestingly, Dark Storm also revealed to me their next target: private bank wallet apps SEDAD Wallet and GBM Banque,” the expert noted.

The hackers allegedly considered the financial institutions’ claims that these services are “unstoppable” as a “direct challenge.”

The owner of X, Elon Musk, confirmed the large-scale attack on the platform.

“We are attacked every day, but this was done with a large amount of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved,” the entrepreneur wrote.

In an interview with Fox Business, Musk stated that preliminary data indicated IP addresses from Ukraine were involved in the attempt to disable the social network.

The Dark Storm group was founded in 2023 and is known for its attacks on organizations and countries supporting Israel.

Back in October 2024, the company Cloudflare repelled a hyper-scale DDoS attack that lasted 80 seconds and peaked at a capacity of 5.6 Tbps.