OpenAI, the company that launched the revolutionary ChatGPTannounced that he had suffered a attacco hacker DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service). This resulted in the inaccessibility of the chatbot, sending it into a blackout. Who claimed responsibility for the attack?
Hacker attack on ChatGPT: what happened?
Yesterday, Wednesday 8 November 2023, OpenAI announced that it had suffered a hacker attack on ChatGPT. The chatbot remained inaccessible for over 90 minutes between 2.42pm and 4.16pm (Italian time) yesterday. Another blackout occurred starting at 9:03 pm.
Hacker attack on ChatGPT: who claimed it?
The hacker attack on ChatGPT was DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) in nature and was claimed by the group Anonymous Sudan. Cybercriminals used the SkyNet botnet to carry out a level 7 DDoS attack. The group wrote on the Telegram channel that OpenAI provides AI technologies to Israel to develop weapons and target Palestinians. Anonymous Sudan used the same type of attack against some Microsoft services in June.
What is an attack DDoS?
And DDoS, o Distributed Denial-of-Service, is a type of cyber attack that attempts to make a website or network resource unavailable by overloading it with malicious traffic and thus making it unusable. In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a criminal overloads his victim with unwanted Internet traffic, preventing normal traffic from reaching its intended destination.
At a high level, a DDoS or DoS attack is like a traffic jam caused by hundreds of fictitious requests to car sharing services. The requests appear legitimate to car-sharing services, which send their drivers to pick up customers, inevitably blocking city streets and thus preventing legitimate traffic from reaching its destination.