Dark Storm, the big scary-sounding group that took down X (formerly Twitter) in a DDoS attack was just an Egyptian college kid? Cybernews reports:
A French security researcher on Tuesday claims to have uncovered the identity of the Dark Storm hacker behind the hours-long DDoS cyberattack on Elon Musk’s X social media platform – and it looks as if an Egyptian college student was behind the entire operation.
Baptiste Robert, the CEO of the OSINT investigations firm Predicta Labs, said after performing a deep web dive to find more about the hacktivist group Dark Storm, has found the individual – an alleged script kiddie – responsible for the rolling outages that impacted tens of thousands of X users on Monday.
The distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), which began around 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time and lasted until late afternoon, were carried out to protest X-owner Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump, and the duo’s “blatant fascism and lack of humanity,” according to an alleged Dark Storm supporter who posted the claim on X on Monday.
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