@LukaszOlejnik it was just a botnet (almost all hosts not in ‘Ukraine region’, also) of cameras and DVRs.

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Ukraine area could be Russia...

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"Starlink was used in #Ukraine to attack #Twitter so we had to switch it off" incoming.
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@LukaszOlejnik A group has actually claimed credit apparently: https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow/114141424704831530

I mentioned this elsewhere, but Twitter had a ton of problems when he bought it. A lot of staff (many now former staff) mentioned they tried to bring up issues, but he would just talk over them, ignore them, or even fire them. He left a skeleton crew to maintain a burning ship. Frankly I'm willing to believe it wouldn't take a country (much less one too busy fighting its own wars) to take down X.

@LukaszOlejnik this seems like a good time to remind that the average hacking attribution is on this level:
https://threatbutt.com/map/

@LukaszOlejnik thanks for pointing that out. It happens all the time and I tried to overcome this false accusations everytime our my ex-employer got into this cyberattribution again.

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Then all the attacks on our Green Party website don't come from the Ukrainians after all? 🙃

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Twitter/X taken down by someone Musk alleges to be in “Ukraine area” = weasel words

@LukaszOlejnik A message for the yokels, they'll believe anything. Like emails that come from Nigerian princes...

@LukaszOlejnik (F)elon Musk is looking for a PR reason to switch off Starlink in Ukraine.

It's more than clear why he is spreading this narrative

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Is he just looking for a pretext to shutdown StarLink in Ukrainia ?

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It's Elon's claim.
And it aligns with his employee president's idea of a peace deal in Ukraine.

So most likely another alternative fact.

@LukaszOlejnik Ukraine...the same Ukraine that has barely functioning internet?

@LukaszOlejnik I think the technical term for this is “Dolchstosslegende”

@LukaszOlejnik With the usual caveat that Musk is even being truthful here. For all we know, the company simply forgot to pay some bill and suffered a service outage because of it.

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@LukaszOlejnik disgusting

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Musk thinks we're idiots.

Or as we say in Scotland "He hinks oor heids button up the back."

#GaslightingElon
#SpaceKaren
#DontBuySwasticars

@LukaszOlejnik elon is a pathological liar. Just don't believe what he says

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This is pure propaganda from a paranoiac #Nazi, and/or a KGB agent.
As #KGB appointed, he pretends that all which prevents #Putin to annex the whole #Ukraine is a threat against the whole world, against freedom, against Humanity, etc.
Felon, liar, traitor. The fact that the KGB MAGA team use treason as an excuse against those who dare to oppose them demonstrates that they are themselves.

#Musk #Trump #Krasnov #HighTreason

@LukaszOlejnik see, you clock this as a stretch, i clock this as an outright lie.

not because it sounds fake, but because that's exactly the kind of thing elon would do. like the way he keeps replying to people criticizing him saying they're "committing crimes", or "traitors". setting a vague vibe that they're dangerous, to justify getting rid of them later. didn't trump already call zelensky a dictator?

@LukaszOlejnik Thanks to WikiLeaks we know that spoofing the origin of DDOS attacks is a staple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

@LukaszOlejnik lo and behold, i can't post there at all

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@LukaszOlejnik My french professional ISP (Free pro) had a range that previously belonged to Ukraine. The number of times I was identified in Kiyv by outdated geoIP sources is gigantic. IPs and their origin does not mean a lot

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Musk lies, and then lies a bit more…

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Could anybody please explain to Elon Musk how the internet – in general – works?

@LukaszOlejnik Russians with a VPN. Chinese with a VPN. Americans with a VPN.

@LukaszOlejnik I used to be the manager of the Cloudflare DDoS protection team... and we never bothered trying to attribute an attack, it is pointless.

Even if (a big if) you could say "this machine definitely sent a malicious packet/request"... there was no way to state with confidence whether the machine was part of a botnet, or had a compromised piece of software, or a misconfiguration led to it being an open proxy.

That's before looking at the many types of attacks like UDP reflection, SYN floods, etc where the addresses are either not the attacker, or entirely made up and spoofed.

There's a (non-public) mailing list of DDoS protection people from FAANG and 3-letter agencies, and no-one would attempt to attribute... only to mitigate impact and bolster defences.

The only time I ever saw public claims of attribution around attacks were for propaganda reasons.

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@LukaszOlejnik Most likely russian in origin. Possibly even in collusion with melon, to create an excuse for cutting starlink.

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I do hope someone fatally hacks tor destroys twitter/shitter platform...it would be a great public service.

@LukaszOlejnik That we still give any credibility to a man who has lied constantly for 20 years, is beyond me.

Exactly this, much of Ukraine is occupied, with traffic operated by Russian ISPs.

Also, US DoD Ordered Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia several weeks ago, in line with Trump’s support for the terrorist state.

I also remember, the US govt and partners attributed cyber espionage activities to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), including the SolarWinds compromise. SVR Cyber Actors Adapt Tactics for Initial Cloud Access details SVR-affiliated “Midnight Blizzard” activities.

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#Ukraine #eu #Europe #UK #nato

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#falseflag

this South African drug addict, pathological liar and fraudster..... Any statements he makes are absolutely deliberate disinformation.....

@LukaszOlejnik He knows that perfectly well.