DeepSeek, a rapidly growing AI platform from China, has temporarily disabled new user registrations on its DeepSeek-V3 chat platform following a large-scale cyberattack targeting its services.
“Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continued service,” reads a message on the DeepSeek status page. Existing users can still access the platform, and registration via Google accounts remains available, though this shares personal data such as names, emails, and profile pictures with DeepSeek.
While the company has not disclosed specifics, experts suspect the attack is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault, which overwhelms systems with excessive traffic, rendering them non-functional. In parallel, cybersecurity firm KELA revealed vulnerabilities in DeepSeek’s AI model, which allowed their team to jailbreak it. The model reportedly generated harmful outputs, including ransomware development guides and instructions for creating toxic substances.
