Elon Musk‘s suggestion that Ukraine was behind a cyber attack on his social media site X has been dismissed as ‘garbage’ by one of Britain’s top experts.
Ciaran Martin, who was previously in charge of the UK’s national cyber security, said there was ‘absolutely no evidence’ the attack originated from the war-torn country.
X, which is still commonly known as Twitter despite Mr Musk’s rebranding efforts, suffered severe disruption on Monday with a series of outages.
In a post on the site, Mr Musk said a ‘massive cyber attack’ had been conducted ‘with a lot of resources’ and he was ‘tracing’ its origins.
The billionaire tech mogul – an ally of US President Donald Trump – added a ‘large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved’.
He later pointed the finger at Ukraine, telling Fox News he was ‘not sure exactly what happened’ but the attack came from IP addresses ‘originating in the Ukraine area’.
Yet Professor Martin, who helped to found and then led the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) between 2016 to 2020, rubbished Mr Musk’s claims.
He pointed to how a pro-Palestinian…
