Forbes: X Under Attack—Who Was Really Behind The Musk Platform Outages?
Forbes featured NetSPI CTO, Tom Parker, in the article, X Under Attack—Dark Storm Says It Was Behind Musk Platform DDoS, which explores the attack on X and the challenges of attributing such incidents to specific threat actors.
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Attributing Cyberattacks Is Inherently Complex, Security Experts Say Of X DDoS
According to Tom Parker, chief technology officer at NetSPI, “the magnitude of this incident strongly suggests the involvement of a sophisticated threat actor,” be that nation-state or hacktivist in nature. “We must acknowledge that attributing an attack of this scale is notoriously difficult,” Parker concluded, “precisely because such adversaries are highly adept at concealing their tracks.” One thing that Parker was very clear about is that we should all be “extremely cautious about pointing fingers and sabre rattling without clear and compelling evidence to demonstrate capability, motive, and likely benefit for the party involved.”
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