Two new variants of WormGPT, the malicious large language model (LLM) from July 2023 that operated without restrictions to generate phishing emails, BEC messages, and malware scripts, have been uncovered, now riding on top of xAI’s Grok and Mistral’s Mixtral models. Cloud-native network security company CATO Networks analyzed the variants posted on the widely used…
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Hackers impersonate DeepSeek to distribute malware
To make things worse than they already are for DeepSeek, hackers are found flooding the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with fake DeepSeek packages carrying malicious payloads. According to a discovery made by Positive Expert Security Center (PT ESC), a campaign was seen using this trick to dupe unsuspecting developers, ML engineers, and AI enthusiasts…