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Denial of service (DoS) is an attack that makes a system, network, or application unavailable by exhausting resources or triggering failure. Floods can consume bandwidth, connection state, CPU, memory, or request-processing capacity; a software defect may instead be exploited to crash a service. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack generates traffic from many systems, increasing volume and complicating source-based blocking. The material security impact is loss of availability for users and dependent services, including websites, APIs, DNS, and operational systems.
Mitigation should match the bottleneck. Rate limits, request validation, connection protections, caching, and service isolation can reduce application and state-exhaustion attacks; volumetric traffic generally needs filtering or absorption upstream of the network. Monitoring should distinguish abnormal request patterns from ordinary load and alert on saturation, while tested failover, traffic diversion, and restoration procedures limit outage duration. Vulnerability management and timely patching reduce DoS caused by remotely triggerable crashes, but do not replace capacity planning and resilience testing.
ChatGPT and the associated APIs have been affected by regular outages, citing DDoS attacks as the reason — the Anonymous Sudan group claimed responsibility.
Cloudflare is investigating an ongoing outage causing 'We're sorry" Google errors to be shown on the company's website. [...]
Periodic outages began on November 8
During the last 24 hours, OpenAI has been addressing what it describes as "periodic outages" linked to DDoS attacks affecting its API and ChatGPT services. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation
Russian financial organization Sberbank states in a press release that two weeks ago it faced the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in recent history. [...]