China's hackers discover AI makes cyberattacks twice as easy, which is nice for them
Ourtake
DeepSeek's appeal to hackers is its very low cyber guardrails, which is a sentence nobody wanted to read.
What happened
Taiwanese security firm TeamT5 reports that China-linked state-backed hacking groups have more than doubled their attacks since adopting AI for routine tasks and malware development. Groups reportedly used DeepSeek for exploit code, ChatGPT to build a decryption module for a Signal database, and Anthropic's Claude Code to move through a Taiwanese company's systems.