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What you better know
ChatGPT has been giving users issues for the last 18 to 20 hours.
I used ChatGPT extensively yesterday for a story and received error alert after error alert.
ChatGPT confirms it is experiencing a DDoS attack
This bizarre behavior now makes sense in light of theannouncementfrom OpenAI today that they are being DDoS’d.
What is a DDoS attack?
The image I used ChatGPT 4 to create at the top of this article illustrates the concept quite well.
Hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan lays out its reasons for the DDoS attack.
We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack.
We are continuing work to mitigate this.
Who is behind the DDoS attack on ChatGPT?
They concluded that this group is likely not who they say they are.
In this case, the West.
So, who is behind the DDoS attack on ChatGPT?
I don’t have the answer, but I leave it to you to draw your conclusions.
How can companies mitigate a DDoS attack?
Several services, like managed web software firewalls, offer DDoS protection for companies.
One of the most well-known is Cloudflare.
Microsoft also offers DDoS protection, as do many other companies.
With Microsoft’s stake in OpenAI, the Microsoft security team is likely assisting in remediating this attack.
However, the primary way to do that is to rate limit traffic from a single source.
Still, each gear only sends tens of thousands in an hour.
