DeepSeek
DeepSeek AI tools impersonated by infostealer malware on PyPI
Threat actors are taking advantage of the rise in popularity of the DeepSeek to promote two malicious infostealer packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI), where they impersonated developer tools for the AI platform. The packages were named “deepseeek” and “deepseekai” after the Chinese artificial intelligence startup, developer of the R1 large-language model that recently saw […]
DeepSeek exposes database with over 1 million chat records
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. The unsecured ClickHouse instances reportedly held over a million log entries containing user chat history in plaintext form, API keys, backend details, and operational metadata. Wiz Research discovered this exposure during a security […]
DeepSeek halts new signups amid “large-scale” cyberattack
Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has disabled registrations on it DeepSeek-V3 chat platform due to an ongoing “large-scale” cyberattack targeting its services. DeepSeek is a relatively new AI platform that has quickly gained attention over the past week for its development and release of an advanced AI model that allegedly matches or outperforms the capabilities of […]