Chinese Hacker Uses DeepSeek AI to Orchestrate Vulnerability Exploits

2026-08-01T02:52:06Z1dd12f5f1c7457335dcff07bed692dfa3e80b96955ae45557a3488434da0506d
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Infosecurity Magazine feed covering active and emerging cyber threats, including AI-assisted exploitation, phishing and adversary-in-the-middle campaigns, ransomware and EDR evasion, supply-chain attacks, malware, DNS tunneling, industrial-system targeting, zero-days, and vulnerabilities affecting Chrome, Hugging Face Diffusers, Ubuntu snap-confine, Linux, and Zimbra. Multiple reports describe nation-state and criminal activity, including North Korean, Russian, Iranian, and Chinese-speaking actors. The feed includes several high-impact vulnerabilities and active exploitation claims, but most 

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