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ChatGPT is down: Anonymous hackers in Sudan accept responsibility!

Dr. Shekhar Pawar

Founder & CEO @ SecureClaw & GrassDew IT Solutions ??? Doctorate in Cybersecurity from SSBM Switzerland ?? We Offer???Virtual CISO | VAPT | SAST | BDSLCCI | Software Development | Teleservices

发布日期: 2023年11月9日

The well-known chatbot from OpenAI, ChatGPT, is still unavailable for some customers as of right now. According to the company's most recent status update, the service is still experiencing "periodic outages." Furthermore, it appears to be the outcome of a DDoS attack.

Many users of ChatGPT are still having problems with outages.
OpenAI is looking at potential DDoS attacks.
Users are unable to use the new GPT Builder or access ChatGPT online.

"We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack," OpenAI states in its most recent system upgrade. We're still working to lessen this.

With this week's significant outage occurring just when OpenAI should be enjoying great success following the launch of GPT-4 Turbo, it's a serious setback for ChatGPT.

According to OpenAI, a suspected Distributed Denial of Service assault was the reason behind the major disruptions that affected ChatGPT and the application programming interface on November 8.

An organization going by the name Anonymous Sudan has taken ownership of the DDoS attack against ChatGPT. The hackers attribute the attack to ChatGPT's "general biasness towards Israel and against Palestine," according to a message made in a Telegram channel.

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Why DDoS Attack is Relatively Easy to Perform but Very Dangerous to Victim?

Cybercriminals are extremely fearless and more knowledgeable in their attempts to attack from all areas now days. DDoS attacks are an innovative method of taking down a corporation without needing to compromise the mainframe, but the attackers can stay mostly unidentified. This makes it even harder to defend against, even with the best DDoS security available, when the terrain is entirely unknown. Even with this defense, threat actors still improve their tools every year and employ new IP addresses, such as those from Internet of Things devices in homes, to inundate systems with attacks that can render them utterly unusable and harder to defend against.

Important Note!

On Wednesday, Anthropic, an OpenAI competitor, experienced problems as well with their AI-powered chatbot, Claude. "Claude is unable to respond to your message due to unexpected capacity constraints," read one of the platform's messages, according to CNBC. If the two instances are related, it's unclear.