{"id":17489,"date":"2025-01-27T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/deepseek-hit-with-large-scale-cyber-attack-after-ai-chatbot-tops-app-stores\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:39:11","slug":"deepseek-hit-with-large-scale-cyber-attack-after-ai-chatbot-tops-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/deepseek-hit-with-large-scale-cyber-attack-after-ai-chatbot-tops-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek hit with \u2018large-scale\u2019 cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in US<\/p>\n<p>DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app skyrocketed to the top of Apple\u2019s App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google\u2019s Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>On its <a href=\"https:\/\/status.deepseek.com\/\">status page<\/a>, DeepSeek said it started to investigate the issue late Monday night Beijing time. After about two hours of monitoring, the company said it was the victim of a \u201clarge-scale malicious attack\u201d. While DeekSeek limited registrations, existing users were still able to log on as usual. The app is now allowing registrations again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/27\/deepseek-cyberattack-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/824cac0a4b8f79e7969b0d70ff91b3f06b4df222\/0_239_5596_3358\/master\/5596.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=20d2197d509e763f7033cbb9347c61f0\" title=\"DeepSeek hit with \u2018large-scale\u2019 cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores\" \/>Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in US<br \/>\nDeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app skyrocketed to the top of Apple\u2019s App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google\u2019s Play Store.<br \/>\nOn its status page, DeepSeek said it started to investigate the issue late Monday night Beijing time. After about two hours of monitoring, the company said it was the victim of a \u201clarge-scale malicious attack\u201d. While DeekSeek limited registrations, existing users were still able to log on as usual. The app is now allowing registrations again. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in US DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app skyrocketed to the top of Apple\u2019s App &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/deepseek-hit-with-large-scale-cyber-attack-after-ai-chatbot-tops-app-stores\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DeepSeek hit with \u2018large-scale\u2019 cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}