X Outage Blamed on Cyberattack

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X's cyberattack 'could have come from anywhere' - NOT just Ukraine

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X owner Elon Musk said the outage was caused by a 'massive cyberattack' on Monday .

He sensationally claimed that the attack originated in Ukraine , 'with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area' However, Jake Moore , security advisor at ESET , says the cyberattack could have originated 'anywhere' Ciaran Martin , professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government , said Musk 's explanation was 'unconvincing' and 'pretty much garbage' Megha Kumar , head of geopolitical risk at CyXcel , said 'we need a lot more information before we jump to this conclusion'.

Musk previously said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is running a 'fraud machine feeding off the dead bodies of soldiers' Now acting as an adviser on federal spending to President Trump , Musk is a key member of the Trump administration.

It comes amid fraught relations between Kyiv and Washington ; last month , Trump called Ukrainian PresidentZelensky a 'dictator'.

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