A Chinese AI platform DeepSeek sent tech stocks crashing yesterday when investors realized that DeepSeek was cheaper and maybe better than what U.S. tech has produced. It wasn’t long afterwards that DeepSeek got hit with a cyberattack. Bleeping Computer reported it:
Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has disabled registrations on its DeepSeek-V3 chat platform due to an ongoing “large-scale” cyberattack targeting its services.
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Today, just as the DeepSeek AI Assistant app overtook ChatGPT as the top downloaded app on the Apple App Store, the company was forced to turn off new registrations after suffering a cyberattack.
“Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continued service,” reads a message on the DeepSeek status page.
“Existing users can log in as usual. Thanks for your understanding and support.”
While no details about the attack were shared, it is believed that the company is facing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against its API and Web Chat platform.
Read more at Bleeping Computer. The person or persons responsible for the cyberattack have not been publicly revealed, if known. Nor did DeepSeek clarify whether it was a DDoS attack or some other type of attack. By today, new registrations had been re-enabled.
