DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/27/deepseek-cyberattack-ai

21 5 1 year ago

Anyone with knowledge in this domain willing to speculate on the origins of this attack?

creato• 1 year ago

DeepSeek offers for free/extremely cheap, a very expensive to provide service, requiring huge server infrastructure, to a userbase that probably grew by 3+ orders of magnitude in the last week.

There's no way they weren't going to be forced to throttle user signups, "cyberattack" or not.

jdthedisciple2• 1 year ago

How is this not front page HN??

maeil• 1 year ago

To be fair, I recently posted a prolonged Anthropic complete API outage (when Sonnet 3.5 was best in town) and it got zero traction, so it's not unimaginable.

Agreed it's a bit suprising though.

jdthedisciple2• 1 year ago

Seems to be a major player at play here. What a lowly move though, gives me sore loser vibes.

DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores

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