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Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Zoom outages reported as Dark Storm Team hacking group takes credit
The Brief A pro-Palestinian hacking group has taken credit for a Zoom outage that's been reported today. Dark Storm Team is the same hacking group that recently took credit for a massive attack on Elon Musk's X social media platform. There's no word on when the Zoom issues will be resolved. Dark Storm Team, a hacking group that most recently claimed it attacked Elon Musk's X, has taken credit for a Zoom outage reported today. Reports say the hacking group Dark Storm Team has taken credit for the Zoom outage in a post on Telegram. They claim it's a DDos attack – a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data to overwhelm it and knock it offline. What we know Zoom confirmed Wednesday that the widely used teleconferencing platform is experiencing outages due to "domain name resolution issues." READ MORE: Spotify issues resolved after widespread outage Zoom says the issues are affecting multiple services. As of 3:09 p.m. ET, more than 64,000 Zoom outages were reported on the Down Detector website. What we don't know Zoom has not confirmed the outages are a result of a hack or said when the issues will be resolved. FOX TV Stations reached out to Zoom for comment. The backstory According to Orange Cyberdefense, DarkStorm Team is a hacking group that "targets key business sectors, mainly in Israel and NATO member countries." RELATED: "I'm so alone": Someone is hacking crosswalks to sound like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg "Increased collaboration with other hacktivist groups could make attacks more difficult to counter," the cybersecurity company says. They've been described as pro-Palestinian, and recently took credit for a massive DDos attack on Elon Musk's X social media platform in March. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. The Source This report includes information from Zoom, The Associated Press, Orange Cyberdefense and KRON.
Sky News
11-03-2025
- Business
- Sky News
X outage: Who are hackers 'behind massive cyber attack' on Elon Musk's social media platform?
Elon Musk said his social media platform X was hit by a "massive cyber attack" on Monday - but who was behind it? Musk said IP addresses involved in the attack were traced to locations "in the Ukraine area" but a hacking group called Dark Storm Team claimed it was responsible, in now-deleted Telegram posts. "Twitter has been taken offline by Dark Storm Team," a post read on the group's account, with a screenshot showing connection problems in a long list of countries. Here, Sky News looks at what we know about the hackers claiming responsibility for the attack. Who is Dark Storm Team? The hacking group was founded in 2023 and has orchestrated cyber attacks against governments and organisations known to support Israel, according to cyber security firm Check Point. "They tend to go after those high-profile attacks," said Muhammad Yahya Patel, a lead security engineer at Check Point. "Their main mantra is to cause disruption of services, largely related to government and NATO connections." The group has previously targeted Israeli hospitals, US airports, government websites and other critical infrastructure services, according to cyber security site Security Scorecard. It added that Dark Storm Team does not tend to demand ransoms after attacks and the group is vocal about its political motivations. "We will attack any country [...] that supports the occupying entity," the group posted on Telegram last year, in screenshots shared by Security Scorecard. However, Dark Storm Team is not completely motivated by political beliefs - it also advertises itself as hackers-for-hire. 0:56 'We have no relationship with Ukraine' While Musk linked the cyber attack to IP addresses "in the Ukraine area", this is disputed. A post from an X account claiming to be connected to Dark Storm Team read: "According to what Elon Musk said about the cyber attack on the X platform, its source is Ukraine. "It is an accusation without any evidence, and we have no relationship with Ukraine." Cybersecurity experts also questioned the claim, saying it would be unusual for an attack like this to come out of one location. "The IP addresses are [usually] distributed globally from different locations," said Mr Patel. After checking with Check Point's team of cyber analysts, he added: "It looks like a general DDoS attack coming from different locations, different IP addresses." A DDoS, or denial-of-service, attack is when hackers flood a system with attacks from all angles, targeting web servers, internal networks, or anything else they can access. The idea is to disrupt services enough that they become unavailable. After scouring the dark web, Mr Patel's team also found no one else claiming responsibility for the attack on X, only Dark Storm Team. Musk, the internet and Ukraine Musk caused alarm on Sunday when he claimed Ukraine's "entire front line would collapse if I turned it [Starlink] off". He made the remarks during a row with Poland's foreign minister over the use of Musk's satellite internet system. Last year, Ukraine said around 42,000 of the internet terminals were in operation across its military, hospitals, businesses and aid organisations. Musk later said he would "never turn off [Starlink's] terminals". US negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting Ukraine's access to the service, sources told Reuters in February.
Express Tribune
11-03-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Elon Musk points to Ukraine for cyber attack on X, pro-Palestinian Dark Storm Team claims responsibility
Elon Musk has suggested Ukraine was behind a significant cyber attack on X (formerly Twitter) that caused widespread outages on Monday. Tens of thousands of users reported issues, with at least three major disruptions to the website and app throughout the day. Pro-Palestinian hacker group Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility, identifying it as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In a Telegram post, they claimed to have successfully "taken Twitter offline" and shared a screenshot showing a real-time connectivity status page with failed connection attempts from various locations around the globe. Photo: X The group is known for targeting NATO countries and entities supporting Israel amid the genocide in Gaza, especially following Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack. However, Musk took to X, implying that a "large, coordinated group and/or a country" was involved in the attack. He remarked that while cyberattacks are frequent, this one had 'a lot of resources' behind it. There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏. 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. Tracing … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2025 Musk later told Fox News' Larry Kudlow that the attack originated from "IP addresses in the Ukraine area." The DDoS attacks overwhelmed X's servers, causing outages that led to more than 40,000 reports on Downdetector. Dark Storm Team's connection to Russia and other groups remains unconfirmed, but experts, including Orange Cyberdefense, suggest there are strong links.
Sky News
10-03-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
Elon Musk blames 'IP addresses in Ukraine' after X hit by cyber attack
X has been hit by a "massive cyber attack", according to Elon Musk. The boss of the social media platform said the attack was carried out "with a lot of resources". Mr Musk claimed that either a large coordinated group or a country was involved, or both. He wrote on the platform: "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. "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. Tracing..." Later on Monday, Mr Musk claimed on Fox News that IP addresses involved in the cyber attack were traced to locations "in the Ukraine area". In a now-deleted post on Telegram, a hacking group called Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for the attack. Around 40,000 users reported they could not access the platform on Monday, according to data from tracking website Complaints about outages spiked at around 10am in the UK, and again at 2pm. A source in the internet infrastructure industry told the Reuters news agency that the platform had been hit by several waves of denial of service (DoS) attacks at around 9.45am. According to the National Cyber Security Centre, DoS attacks are attempts to overload a website or network - aiming to degrade its performance or make it completely inaccessible.
