Anonymous Sudan attacked X and blackmailed Elon Musk
- September 4, 2023
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A hacker group known as Sudan Anonymous (Anonymous Sudan), managed to disrupt social network X (formerly Twitter) in more than a dozen countries last week, the BBC reported.
A hacker group known as Sudan Anonymous (Anonymous Sudan), managed to disrupt social network X (formerly Twitter) in more than a dozen countries last week, the BBC reported. In this way, they decided to pressure Elon Musk to launch the Starlink satellite internet service in Sudan.
According to the BBC, X was down for more than two hours due to a DDoS attack that affected tens of thousands of users. A DDoS attack involves overloading the server with excessive requests, which makes the site virtually unusable. Downdetector, a site that tracks service failures, has logged around 20,000 crash reports from users in the US and UK.
The hackers issued a message addressed to Elon Musk: “Application+website+internal system not working. All X (Twitter) is completely disabled. Forward our message to Elon Musk: Launch Starlink in Sudan.”
X did not publicly acknowledge the failure, and Elon Musk did not respond to the message sent to him.
Source: Port Altele
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