During a conversation between billionaire Elon Musk and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Musk’s social media platform X, technical issues occurred that Musk claimed were caused by a DDoS attack.
The discussion was significant since it was Trump’s high-profile comeback to X following his 2021 Twitter ban in the wake of the Capitol rioting. In addition, Musk has been a big supporter of Trump as a candidate for the US presidency, thus inviting the former president to speak on his platform was a noteworthy choice that drew attention.
What unfolded during the interview?
Less than 20 minutes into the much-anticipated interview, Musk announced that the social media site had been struck by a massive distributed denial of service attack.
DDoS is an assault on a platform that tries to bring it down by overloading it with too many enquiries in too short a time. Many of the queries are pointless because the goal is to drive excessive traffic to the platform, c
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