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Musk Reveals Where Cyberattack on X Originated From
townhall.com ^ | March 11, 2025 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 03/11/2025 8:27:25 AM PDT by V_TWIN

“We’re not sure exactly what happened,” Musk told Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow about the attack on his social media platform. “But there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system, with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.”

Experts told The Post it was highly improbably that Ukrainian government actors were the perpetrator of such an audacious and far-reaching attack one day before diplomats from Washington and Kyiv meet in Saudi Arabia.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2ndtopic; cyberattack; ddos; elonmusk; internet; musk; twittercyberattack; ukraine; vpn; xcyberattack
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"Experts told The Post it was highly improbably that Ukrainian government actors were the perpetrator of such an audacious and far-reaching attack"

HE DIDN'T SSY OT WAS THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT.....HR SAID THE ATTACK CAME FROM THE UKRAINIAN AREA.

Experts my ass. SMH

1 posted on 03/11/2025 8:27:25 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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"Experts told The Post it was highly improbably that Ukrainian government actors were the perpetrator of such an audacious and far-reaching attack"

At this point, does it matter?

If Ukrainians want a positive response from US - they should reveal ALL the corrupt activities of US 'players' for the last 15 years.

They'll never give up the con, however.
2 posted on 03/11/2025 8:32:31 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: V_TWIN

Think that Musk might know more than he’s admitting but just keeping some info in his back pocket for now?


3 posted on 03/11/2025 8:33:40 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: V_TWIN

I trust Elon’s experts more than I trust the Post’s experts


4 posted on 03/11/2025 8:35:01 AM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: V_TWIN

“We’re not sure exactly what happened,” Musk told Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow


5 posted on 03/11/2025 8:35:46 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

It’s funny how the “experts” (and some non-expert Freepers) seem to think Musk and his team are rank amateurs who can be easily fooled by “spoofing”. Go figure.


6 posted on 03/11/2025 8:43:22 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: HombreSecreto

Well, at the least he’s gotten the “experts” to admit that Ukrainian (or Russian) “fingerprints” can be spoofed. Of course we all knew that because Vault 7 showed that our own CIA can plant fake fingerprints of nations such as Russia. But until now we were supposed to believe that Crowdstrike could absolutely say that Russia gave the DNC emails to Wikileaks.

I wonder where all these “experts” cited today were back when Crowdstrike was claiming Russian hackers.

My bet is that our own CIA - with or without the help of Anonymous who claimed the attack - were involved, either to frame Russia as having spoofed the Ukraine IP’s or just to sabotage ANY negotiations that involve Trump.


7 posted on 03/11/2025 8:43:38 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: V_TWIN

I wonder which NGO funded the cyber attack?


8 posted on 03/11/2025 8:46:42 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: V_TWIN

Well, it would be very dumb for the Ukranian government to antagonize the man who can turn off Starlink, so the experts are probably right about that.

That leaves Russian operatives and pro-Russian Ukranians as well as Ukranians who want to get rid of Zelensky.

Plus the usual assortment of anarchists and nutbags and other chotic nerds who just like to poke things to see what will happen.

Don’t rule out our own CIA as participants. They are nervous and butthurt about DOGE. Many are unstable sex perverts and sociopaths.

Lots of players could be involved. A consortium of the wicked and the naive.

Fun times.


9 posted on 03/11/2025 8:49:20 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: CatHerd

They are IDIOTS!


10 posted on 03/11/2025 8:54:07 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CatHerd

“non-expert Freepers”

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Well, we certainly do have an abundance of those don’t we?......and on every subject!

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LOL!


11 posted on 03/11/2025 8:58:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: larrytown
If Ukrainians want a positive response from US - they should reveal ALL the corrupt activities of US 'players' for the last 15 years.

Great idea - would love to know how much Hunter, democrats and other assorted Euro-trash received in kickbacks

12 posted on 03/11/2025 9:02:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (Corrupt MSM press ignored Biden's inflation almost to the end. With Trump they'll watch every day.)
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To: V_TWIN

Even if it was the Ukrainian government, no one in the national security state nor in the press would ever admit it.


13 posted on 03/11/2025 9:04:20 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: GOPJ

And REPUBLICANS.

I want to know the RINO’s and scum that need to be primaried. McCain may need to be exhumed and put on trial.


14 posted on 03/11/2025 9:05:26 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: butterdezillion

“My bet is that our own CIA - with or without the help of Anonymous who claimed the attack - were involved, either to frame Russia as having spoofed the Ukraine IP’s or just to sabotage ANY negotiations that involve Trump.”

Absolutely. Without a doubt. They DO NOT want this war to end.


15 posted on 03/11/2025 9:07:27 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Valpal1

“with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area”

There’s this neat little thing called a virtual private network.

You can route through another country to hide your IP address.

I guess the “actors” don’t know about it.


16 posted on 03/11/2025 9:07:57 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: CatHerd

Whatever the source, no one is going to learn it on FR.


17 posted on 03/11/2025 9:14:02 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Valpal1

I was thinking the same. Lots of the usual suspects (and what you might call unusual ones lol).

It could have been Ukrainian hardliners trying to damage the peace talks taking place today.

Another reason Ukrainians (especially the nuttier hardliners) would do this is similar to the reason they wasted a bunch of drones on Russian apartment buildings, car parks, etc., at down this morning local time. To send a message that they have “cards” (although their cards are lousy twos). See? We can mess with your X/Twitter! Don’t you think about messing with our Starlink! Silly? Yes, but so was the drone attack on Moscow, etc. Added bonus: X had been all atwitter over the Kursk debacle yesterday.

But really, as you wrote, it could be any number of rabid dogs, nutballs and cyberhooligans.


18 posted on 03/11/2025 9:22:02 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: packagingguy

See my #6 on this thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4303542/posts?page=6#6


19 posted on 03/11/2025 9:24:24 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: bigbob

“Whatever the source, no one is going to learn it on FR.”

Why not?
We learned that Dan Rather’s ‘fake but accurate’ document was a forgery on FR


20 posted on 03/11/2025 9:26:20 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991 unburdened by what I was burdened by before.)
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