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What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X

ID: 01899e13-bb4f-5226-878b-5cb8b7d9bed2

STIX ID: report--01899e13-bb4f-5226-878b-5cb8b7d9bed2

Feed Name: WIRED Security

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2025-03-11

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Lily Hay Newman

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Researchers observed multiple DDoS attacks that caused intermittent outages for X; attackers (claimed by Dark Storm Team) leveraged a botnet—reportedly composed of compromised cameras and DVRs—to directly target exposed origin servers not fully protected by DDoS mitigation, producing traffic loss and service disruption while highlighting the limits of IP-based attribution.

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