Security News > 2023 > November > OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages
OpenAI has been addressing "Periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours.
While the company didn't immediately provide any details on the root cause of these incidents, OpenAI confirmed earlier today that they're linked to ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks.
"We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this," OpenAI said in an update to an incident report published 11 hours ago.
While OpenAI has yet to attribute these DDoS attacks, a threat actor known as Anonymous Sudan claimed the attacks on Wednesday, saying that the reason behind them is the company's "General biasness towards Israel and against Palestine."
The group also confirmed using the SkyNet botnet in these attacks, which has been providing stresser services since October and added support for application layer attacks or Layer 7 DDoS attacks last week.
Some cybersecurity researchers believe this is a false flag and that the group might be linked to Russia instead. OpenAI has yet to respond to BleepingComputer's requests for comment on ongoing outages and DDoS attacks.