One day after X went down for hours, security researchers are throwing cold water on Elon Musks public comments about who might be behind the DDoS attack. On Monday, as X was still struggling to remain online, Musk said in a post that the site had been brought down by a massive cyberattack executed by a large, coordinated group and/or a country. Later that day, in an interview with Fox News, he said the attack involved "IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area."He never provided evidence for either claim. But, in a new report from Wired, security researchers offered a very different view on the attack. Security experts interviewed by the publication said that they had seen little evidence that Ukrainian IP addresses played a significant role in the DDoS attack, with one researcher saying the country wasnt even in the top 20 countries of origin involved.The report also suggests that, despite Musks assertion there were a lot of resources involved, X may have inadvertently left its systems susceptible to a DDoS attack like the one that happened Monday. X origin servers, which respond to web requests, weren't properly secured behind the company's Cloudflare DDoS protection and were publicly visible, Wired writes. As a result, attackers could target them directly. X has since secured the servers.Notably, this wouldnt be the first time Musk has blamed an unspecified cyberattack when faced with an embarrassing failure of Xs systems. Last year, Musk blamed a massive DDoS attack for crashing a planned livestream with Donald Trump, who was running for president at the time. Musk never explained how a DDoS attack could bring down only one feature on the site. The Vergelater reported that there had been no such attack.X didnt respond to a request for comment.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/security-researchers-arent-buying-musks-spin-on-the-cyberattack-that-took-down-x-203402687.html?src=rss