Major and sustained cyberattacks on the Chinese AI model DeepSeek originated in the US, Chinese media reported on Thursday.
The cyberattack on DeepSeek began on Jan. 3 and peaked on Monday and Tuesday with a massive brute-force attack from US IP addresses, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing Yuyuan Tantian, a CCTV social media account.
“All the attack IPs were recorded; all are from the US,” a cybersecurity expert told CCTV, China’s state media.
The earlier stage of the cyberattack contained more distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at disrupting DeepSeek’s normal service by overwhelming its servers and bandwidth with a flood of internet traffic, while the more recent attacks were primarily brute-force attacks aimed at cracking user IDs and passwords to understand how DeepSeek works, CCTV reported, citing a report from China’s cybersecurity firm QAX Technology Group.
Separately, US President Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick alleged on Wednesday that DeepSeek allegedly misused American technology.
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Earlier this month, DeepSeek released its open-source AI model, R1, which mimics human reasoning and challenges the dominance of OpenAI and US competitors like Google and Meta.
DeepSeek, a large language model, operates with significantly lower resource consumption than its rivals, including US-based OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Its rapid rise in popularity across global mobile app stores triggered stock losses of up to almost $1 trillion in market value for major Western tech firms such as Nvidia.
-Source: AA
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