Toxic trend: Another malware threat targets DeepSeek

Introduction DeepSeek-R1 is one of the most popular LLMs right now. Users of all experience levels look for chatbot websites on search engines, and threat actors have started abusing the popularity of LLMs. We previously reported attacks with malware being spread under the guise of DeepSeek to...

Trojans disguised as AI: Cybercriminals exploit DeepSeek’s popularity

Introduction Among the most significant events in the AI world in early 2025 was the release of DeepSeek-R1 – a powerful reasoning large language model LLM with open weights. It's available both for local use and as a free service. Since DeepSeek was the first service to offer access to a reasoni...