Fox News host Steve Doocy devoted several minutes to calling BS on Elon Musk’s claim that the cyberattack that disabled X/Twitter originated in Ukraine.
Musk announced Monday that X (formerly Twitter) was hit by a “massive cyberattack” and claimed “a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
In an interview on Fox Business Network Monday night, he claimed the attack originated “in the Ukraine area.”
On Tuesday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy and Fox News “Tech Guy” Kurt Knutsson spent a few minutes debunking the idea that the attack originated in Ukraine, with Doocy concluding by noting the attack was likely committed by a group that’s “not actually in Ukraine”:
STEVE DOOCY: Meanwhile, I’m sure you saw Elon Musk on with Larry Kudlow last night. He said this and we want your reaction. Watch this.ELON MUSK: We’re not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyber attack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.STEVE DOOCY: Okay. So X had a gigantic denial of services attack and it looks like it’s Ukraine.But you and I were talking. It probably looks like it’s coming from Ukraine. But these guys, they have ways of making it look like it’s coming from Ukraine, even though they’re not in
Ukraine.And I suggested it might be Russia. We don’t know exactly who it is.KURT KNUTSSON: Yeah, we don’t know yet, but we will find out at some point. Now originating– it’s– what Elon Musk is saying is that they were able to identify the fact that the IP address of this attack, which, by the way, sent Brian to the moon, was bananas yesterday. “I can’t get on Twitter!”.It’s X, Brian.Well, we originate– what Elon Musk was saying is that the IP address was coming from the Ukraine.But what we also know is that it’s very easy for hackers and cyber criminals to make it appear as though their IP address or an attack is coming from one particular region or another.So we’ll get to the bottom of that at some point. So I don’t know.But what we also know, though, is shortly after Elon Musk said that a group called the Dark Storm Team, it’s a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group, claimed that they were behind the attack.We know that 40,000 people, in addition to Brian, were reporting the outage on X yesterday, according to the down detector website. And last major outage that they had on X was back in February, almost a year ago. That lasted for hours.And what we also know about that hackinggroup is we best know them more recently, where we reported that they attacked two U.S. airports in their systems, LAX and JFK.So it’s a serious group. They’re a menace. They go after Israel, they go after NATO countries, and chances are they were behind this attack. But we don’t know yet.STEVE DOOCY: Okay. And not actually in Ukraine, we don’t think.
Watch above via Fox & Friends.