ChatGPT was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday, which OpenAI confirmed in a status update on Thursday. A Distributed Denial of Service attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt access to a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it—or its surrounding infrastructure—with a flood of internet traffic. The popular Solana network was the target of a series of attacks. In September 2021, a denial of service attack was blamed for taking the network down for over 17 hours. In June 2022, Stepn, a Move-to-Earn game on the Solana network, was hit with a distributed denial of service attack.

Source: The Nation November 10, 2023 09:04 UTC