New Tenable Report Finds DeepSeek Can Be Jailbroken to Create Malware - CPO Magazine

A new Tenable report reveals that DeepSeek R1’s safeguards against malware creation are easily bypassed. Researchers demonstrated this by convincing the AI assistant to generate a keylogger and ransomware samples, though the code required manual editing to function. While the malware was rudimentary, it highlights the thin guardrails in generative AI systems and the potential for novice attackers to leverage these tools.