Hours after X went down multiple times in a series of outages Monday, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources," Musk claimed in a post. "Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …” Users were being greeted with spinning loading wheels across all portions of the site, including their feed and the trending topics sidebar. Eventually, users' feeds were returning a simple error: "Something went wrong. Try reloading." Complaints about outages spiked Monday at 6 a.m. Eastern and again at 10 a.m., with more than 40,000 users reporting no access to the platform, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com. By afternoon, the reports had dropped to the low thousands. A sustained outage that lasted at least an hour began at noon, with the heaviest disruptions occurring along the U.S. coasts. Musk said on Fox Business Network’s Kudlow that the attackers had “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area" without going into detail on what this might mean. Cybersecurity experts quickly pointed out, however, that this doesn't necessarily mean that an attack originated in Ukraine. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont said on Bluesky that Musk's claim is “missing a key fact — it was actually IPs from worldwide, not just Ukraine.” Specifically, he said it was a Mirai variant botnet, which is made of compromised cameras. He said while he is not sure who is behind the attack, it “Smells of APTs — advanced persistent teenagers.” MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/xcom-outage/507-8aa8b52f-838d-495a-926a-9dbc5065c64e