<p>Odaily News Qi&#39;anxin Group said in a statement today that the initiator of the large-scale attack on the X platform and the one that attacked DeepSeek during the Spring Festival were the same main botnet, which is a veritable &quot;professional thug&quot;. Moreover, the attack time was exactly the same as the downtime of the X platform. The scale and intensity of the attack directly led to the paralysis of the X platform three times.<br/> Qi&#39;anxin Xlab conducted an in-depth analysis of the attack and disclosed the following key information:<br/> First, monitoring found that the botnet used in this attack was the Mirai variant botnet RapperBot, which belongs to the same group of botnets that attacked DeepSeek during the 2025 Spring Festival.<br/> Second, the attack time is exactly the same as the downtime of platform X.<br/> Third, botnets provide paid attack services and can be called “professional thugs.”<br/> Earlier news, Elon Musk posted that X suffered (and is still ongoing) a large-scale cyber attack. We are attacked every day, but this attack mobilized a lot of resources. It may be a large coordinated organization and/or a country involved, and it is being tracked.<br/></p>