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X hit by ‘massive cyberattack’ amid Dark Storm’s DDoS claims
The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a “massive cyberattack.”. “There […]
X now blocks Signal contact links, flags them as malicious
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is now blocking links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the Signal encrypted messaging to share your account info with another person. According to GeekFeed’s tests and other users’ reports, attempting to post Signal.me links via public posts, direct messages, or profile bios receive error messages citing spam or […]
Elon Musk & X Avoid Half A Billion Dollars In Payouts To Former Employees
Twitter (now X) owner Elon Musk won a court battle yesterday with former employees who had sued him for $500 million after he took over the social media company in 2022. Musk’s Twitter takeover not only saw him re brand the company to X, but it also involved the firing of thousands of employees as […]