{"id":86851,"date":"2023-11-10T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86851"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:04:07","slug":"russia-linked-hackers-carried-out-a-ddos-attack-on-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-linked-hackers-carried-out-a-ddos-attack-on-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-linked hackers carried out a DDoS attack on ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenAI development company linked the recent outages in ChatGPT and its <a href=\\\"https:\/\/status.openai.com\/\\\">ChatGPT outages<\/a> and its <span data-descr=\\\"Application Programming Interface \u2014 the interface of an application\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">API<\/span> with a <span data-descr=\\\"distributed denial of service\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">DDoS<\/span>-attack. According to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-09\/russia-linked-hackers-claim-credit-for-openai-outage-this-week\\\">Bloomberg<\/a>, the incident was attributed to the Russia-backed hacker group Anonymous Sudan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The issue arose on November 8 at 06:52 Moscow Time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cWe are dealing with periodic outages caused by anomalous traffic reflecting a DDoS attack,\u201d OpenAI said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the initial fix, outages recurred twice more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201c[Within a day] we saw errors affecting all services. We implemented a fix and now we see normal responses from our services,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bloomberg reported that the Anonymous Sudan hackers claimed responsibility for the attack in their Telegram channel, describing it as retaliation for OpenAI&#8217;s support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the Solana network <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solana-network-outage-lasts-48-hours-users-report\">became unavailable for 48 hours<\/a> due to spam bots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June, the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/stepn-app-hit-by-a-barrage-of-ddos-attacks\">multiple DDoS attacks<\/a> hit the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-stepn-and-the-gmt-cryptocurrency\">STEPN<\/a> app built on Solana and BNB Chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenAI development company linked the recent ChatGPT outages to a DDoS attack. Responsibility for the incident was claimed by the Russia-backed hacker group Anonymous Sudan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1201,1772,1190],"class_list":["post-86851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-chatbots","tag-ddos-attacks","tag-openai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"47","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86853,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851\/revisions\/86853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}