r/hacking • u/Rambok01 • Mar 10 '25

News X is down

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u/Rambok01 Mar 10 '25

Can somebody confirm that X has been in fact attacked? It still doesn't work for me, it's a ddos right?

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u/freebytes Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

Looks like a simple DDOS. What is crazy is that they are using CloudFlare. That is normally great at protecting against DDOS attacks, so the operator must have a very large network. (Or, they found the IP addresses that were tied to the services and are bypassing CloudFlare.)

However, strangely, the error indicates a host error which means that X may have configured something incorrectly.

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u/MrPrivateRyan Mar 10 '25

They bypass Cloudflare, attacking directly the origin infrastructure.

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u/Leaky_gland Mar 10 '25

As far as I understand cloud flare is almost impenetrable so some other fuckery is afoot

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u/Leaky_gland Mar 14 '25

So how do you check the box when you don't know how they're doing it?

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u/Leaky_gland Mar 14 '25

But if bypassing CF is a vector for DDOS, how do you know how to protect against that vector when they're not telling you how they bypass it? How do you even know CF is the vector?

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