China’s DeepSeek Suspects Cyberattack as Chatbot Prompts Security Concerns

By Shane Snider for InformationWeek
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

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The company’s wild ride continued Monday night as the company reported outages it said were the result of “large-scale malicious attacks,” disrupting services and limiting new registrations.

Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb and adjunct professor of cybersecurity at Maryland’s Capital Technology University, says it may be too early to accept the company’s attack explanation. “It is not completely excluded that DeepSeek simply could not handle the legitimate user traffic due to insufficiently scalable IT infrastructure, while presenting this unforeseen outage as a cyberattack,” he says in an email message.

He adds, “Most importantly, this incident indicates that while many corporations and investors are obsessed with the ballooning AI hype, we still fail to address foundational cybersecurity issues despite having access to allegedly super powerful GenAI technologies.” Read Full Article