Марія Бровінська Hot News 11 March 2025, 08:33

Who Hacked Elon Musk's iPhone? Two Versions of the Origin of Yesterday's Cyberattack

There are currently two versions. One of them is about hackers from Ukrainian IP addresses.

According to threat researchers from Check Point Research, the pro-Palestinian hacker group Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to Newsweek, over the past month, Dark Storm Team has successfully attacked critical infrastructure sites, including Los Angeles International Airport, the Port of Haifa in Israel, and the UAE Ministry of Defense.

Meanwhile, American billionaire Elon Musk suspects that the March 10 cyberattack on his social network X came from IP addresses «originating in Ukraine.» As he said in an interview on Fox Business, the company is still «not sure what exactly happened,» but suspects that the «massive cyberattack» came from IP addresses «originating in Ukraine.»

Recall that on March 10, Elon Musk’s social network X went down and thousands of users around the world were unable to use it, some for about an hour.

Musk said that a massive cyberattack is underway against X (Twitter). «We are attacked every day, but it was done using a large amount of resources. Either a large, coordinated group or a country is behind this,» the platform owner noted.

According to the online outage monitoring system Downdetector and Reuters, problems with the social network were reported around the world. In particular, more than 26,000 users in the US complained of failures, and more than 10,000 people in the UK.

It should be noted that problems with X were also observed in Ukraine. Users were unable to access the platform via the website and app.

Musk is a fierce critic of the Ukrainian authorities amid deteriorating relations between Kyiv and the Trump administration.