OpenAI has confirmed a DDoS attack has caused disruptions to ChatGPT's server, impacting user accessibility.

Yesterday, ChatGPT The AI model became completely unavailable to users worldwide, continuously generating error messages during the outage. OpenAI OpenAI has been tackling what they describe as 'periodic outages' affecting both their API and ChatGPT services over the last 24 hours.

Users encountering these issues received notifications that something went wrong, often followed by the AI’s response indicating an error in generating a reply.

Earlier today, OpenAI confirmed According to OpenAI, these disruptions are a consequence of an ongoing DDoS attack.

In their incident report, OpenAI stated, 'We are currently addressing these periodic outages linked to a highly irregular traffic pattern consistent with a DDoS assault. Our team is actively working to alleviate this situation.'

This incident is noted to have occurred right after OpenAI dealt with another major outage affecting ChatGPT. on Wednesday Reports mentioned some partial outages for ChatGPT on Tuesday and an increase in error rates for Dall-E as well. on Monday .

Anonymous Sudan Behind The DDoS Assault

While OpenAI has been cautious about directly associating these DDoS attacks with any specific group, Anonymous Sudan took responsibility for the incidents on Wednesday, citing OpenAI's ‘general biases against Palestine and in favor of Israel’ as the motive. They declared on their Telegram channel: 'ChatGPT is completely down across the globe, as thousands echo this on Twitter and other social media. Let's see if they'll admit to a DDoS attack.'

The group reportedly employed their SkyNet botnet to orchestrate these attacks, augmenting their toolkit with Layer 7 (L7) DDoS strategies, which facilitate application-layer strikes. last week In these L7 DDoS campaigns, aggressors aim directly at the application level, inundating services with an excessive number of requests, leading to system failures as they cannot handle the deluge.

The immense pressure created on the server and network infrastructure of the targets renders these assaults particularly damaging, and so far, there hasn’t been a clear timeline for when services will stabilize.

Who is Sudan?

Previously, the Anonymous Sudan group had unleashed similar L7 DDoS assaults on Microsoft, with the tech giant confirming the group's actions and tracking their activities, labeled as Storm-1359. OpenAI disclosed that Anonymous Sudan employs three distinct L7 DDoS techniques, namely HTTP(S) flood assaults, cache bypass, and Slowloris. Outlook.com , OneDrive , and Azure Portal Since the start of 2023, this hacker collective has targeted a range of global organizations and government entities, intending to disrupt online infrastructures.

Anonymous Sudan appears to maintain its ‘Anonymous’ title by carrying out operations reminiscent of high-profile public relations campaigns, proclaiming their objectives to retaliate against any entity opposing Sudan.

Although some cybersecurity analysts link this group's activities to specific geopolitical issues, other motivations for their assaults on U.S. corporations may stem from perceived connections with Israel.

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