DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
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Re: DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
#2Anyone with knowledge in this domain willing to speculate on the origins of this attack?
Re: DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
#3Anyone with knowledge in this domain willing to speculate on the origins of this attack?
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Re: DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
#4DeepSeek 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.
Re: DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
#5How is this not front page HN??
Re: DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
#6Seems to be a major player at play here. What a lowly move though, gives me sore loser vibes.
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Re: DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
#8How is this not front page HN??
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.