The incident, which saw two major spikes in user complaints, left many unable to access the platform, with reports of outages particularly concentrated on the U.S. coasts.
However, cybersecurity experts have advised caution in drawing conclusions, as initial investigations indicate that the attack was carried out using a variant of the Mirai botnet, a tool often used in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This botnet employs compromised devices worldwide, making attribution difficult.
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