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DeepSeek Faces Down Attack Upon Launch
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
The Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has disabled registrations on its DeepSeek-V3 chat platform due to an ongoing "large-scale" cyber-attack targeting its services.
Commenting, Dr. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb, said 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 IT outage as a cyber-attack.
“A formal investigation report by DeepSeek will likely bring clarity about the incident. 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. An overall disappointment in GenAI technologies is possible in 2025.” Read Full Article
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