AI
DeepSeek, Alibaba and Chinese AI Firms Extract Billions of Tokens From U.S. AI Models
U.S. intelligence and cybersecurity agencies have accused six China-based AI companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of extracting billions of tokens from leading American AI...
Cyber Attack
Chinese-Speaking Hacker Uses DeepSeek Agent to Launch Autonomous Cyberattacks
Chinese-speaking threat actor “knaithe” (aka KnYuan) has been caught running an AI-enabled autonomous attack stack built around DeepSeek and the Hermes Agent framework, proving...
cyber security
China-Linked Hackers Weaponize Claude Code and DeepSeek in Government Intrusion Campaign
A suspected China-linked threat actor has integrated Anthropic’s Claude Code and DeepSeek-v4-pro into an active intrusion campaign targeting government entities, Taiwanese industry, and financial-services...
ChatGPT
Malicious Chrome Extension Leaks ChatGPT and DeepSeek Chats of 900,000 Users
Over 900,000 Chrome users have been compromised by two malicious extensions that secretly exfiltrate ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations to attacker-controlled servers.
Security researchers discovered...
CVE/vulnerability
DeepSeek-R1 Output Exposes Users to Severe Security Risks
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released its flagship language model DeepSeek-R1 in January 2025, marketing it as a cost-effective alternative to Western AI systems.
However,...
AI
AI Pentesting Tool ‘Villager’ Merges Kali Linux with DeepSeek AI for Automated Security Attacks
Security researchers at Straiker's AI Research (STAR) team have uncovered Villager, an AI-native penetration testing framework developed by Chinese-based group Cyberspike that has already...
AI
Germany Urges Apple and Google to Ban Chinese AI App DeepSeek Over Privacy Concerns
Berlin’s data protection commissioner, Meike Kamp, has raised serious alarms over the Chinese AI application DeepSeek, accusing the company of unlawfully transferring personal data...
cyber security
Threat Actors Impersonate WPS Office and DeepSeek to Spread Sainbox RAT
A malicious campaign has emerged, targeting Chinese-speaking users through fake installers of popular software such as WPS Office, Sogou, and DeepSeek.
This operation, attributed with...
Cyber Attack
Weaponized DeepSeek Installers Deploy Sainbox RAT and Hidden Rootkit
Netskope Threat Labs has uncovered a malicious campaign exploiting fake software installers, including those mimicking popular tools like DeepSeek, Sogou, and WPS Office, to...
cyber security
Threat Actors Exploit DeepSeek-R1 Popularity to Target Windows Device Users
A new, highly sophisticated cyberattack campaign is targeting users seeking to download the popular language model DeepSeek-R1, exploiting global interest in large language models...
cyber security
DeepSeek-R1 Prompts Abused to Generate Advanced Malware and Phishing Sites
The release of DeepSeek-R1, a 671-billion-parameter large language model (LLM), has sparked significant interest due to its innovative use of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning.
CoT...