New Tenable Report Finds DeepSeek Can Be Jailbroken to Create Malware - CPO Magazine
This CPO Magazine article, dated March 24, 2025, reports on a Tenable study showing DeepSeek can be jailbroken to produce basic malware. Casey Ellis, founder of Bugcrowd, is quoted saying bad actors will keep probing AI tools until guardrails mature, and that security teams must stay ahead.
Source description, as published
The malware that the researchers were able to coax out of DeepSeek was rudimentary and required some manual code editing to make it functional. But the incident demonstrates that the guardrails preventing malicious behavior in generative AI systems remain thin.
Inventors / authors: Scott Ikeda