Global Times reports that a Chinese cybersecurity team has confirmed Musk’s claim that the 40-minute delay in starting his discussion with Trump on X was caused by a coordinated “DDoS” attack on X’s servers.
XLab, one of China’s largest cybersecurity companies, concluded that the attack was the result of a sophisticated attack by “four command servers” which were “primarily located in the U.K., Germany and Canada.”
Global Times reports: “XLab … using its large-scale threat perception system promptly … detected the recent attack targeting the X platform. Gong Yiming, head of the laboratory, said they observed that four Mirai botnet controllers were involved in this attack. Additionally, other attack groups also participated using reflection attacks, HTTP proxy attacks, and other methods. Monitoring data indicates that the four botnet controllers launched at least 34 waves of DDoS attacks.”