• McAfee’s researchers find a “cocktail” of malware hiding behind fake Deepseek -Apps
• The campaign rows on people searching for the generative AI tool
• Infostealers, Crypto -Mine Workers and More Inserted In This Way

Hype around Deepseek is the next big thing cyber criminals are utilizing in their hacking campaigns, says researchers from McAfee Labs.

The team has outlined how they saw cyber criminals created different sites and offer different versions of Deepseek for download. Victims would reach out to these sites through search engines, which means some SEO poisoning was also involved in the campaign.