A cyber attack disrupted Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s interview on X with former US President Donald Trump. The interview was supposed to start at 8 p.m. ET, but it was delayed by 40 minutes. It also marked the Republican presidential candidate’s return to X following his suspension in 2021.
Elon Musk has said that X had faced a DDos attack. “There appears to be a massive DDos attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later,” Elon Musk posted on X.
What is DDos Attack?
DDos attack stands for Distributed Denial of Service Attack and it overloads a specific server or network with excess internet traffic to disrupt its normal flow of operations. DDos attacks use various compromised computer systems to generate traffic to attack and target other computer systems or networks.
Cloudflare, a cloud cybersecurity company describes it as “a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.”
A DDos attack can last for hours or days. DDoS attacks are conducted with networks of Internet-connected machines. These networks consist of computers and other devices (such as IoT devices) which have been infected with malware, allowing them to be controlled remotely by an attacker, according to Cloudflare.
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