Former Democratic supporter Elon Musk has recently thrown his support behind Trump after the Republican assassination attempt. Despite Trump's Twitter ban as his supporters stormed the Capitol, Musk brought them back to his new platform.

Elon Musk said a 'massive DDOS attack' on X had disrupted an interview with former President Donald Trump. The tech billionaire's return to the microblogging platform for the event was overshadowed by a cyber attack. Musk expressed concern that only a limited number of live listeners could access the interview, with plans to post it online later. “Seems to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on closing it. Worst case scenario, we'll go ahead with a small number of live audiences and post the conversation later,” the Tesla chief said in a post after missing the interview's scheduled time.

Former Democratic supporter Elon Musk has recently thrown his support behind Trump after the Republican assassination attempt. Despite Trump's Twitter ban as his supporters stormed the Capitol, Musk brought them back to his new platform. A recent conversation between the two was aimed at boosting Trump's struggling campaign after Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

“We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today,” Musk wrote, promising to conduct live conversations with a limited number of listeners and then post “unedited audio.”

What is a DDOS attack?

A DDoS attack, which stands for 'Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack', disrupts normal traffic on a targeted server or network, including Internet traffic. Cybersecurity firm Fortinet classifies it as cybercrime. DDoS attacks pose a significant threat to online operations and can cause downtime, financial loss and reputational damage for businesses.

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet calls it cybercrime.

“A DDoS attack stands for 'distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack' and is a cybercrime in which an attacker floods a server with Internet traffic to prevent users from accessing connected online services and sites,” according to the firm.

DDoS attacks use multiple compromised computer systems as the source of attack traffic, and exploited machines can include computers and other network resources, reads an explanation from IT service management firm Cloudfair.