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DeepSeek Became the Attack Engine Because It Had the Fewest Guardrails

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A Chinese-speaking threat actor, identified by Unit 42 as the Zhuhai-based group knaithe/KnYuan, recently executed an autonomous hacking campaign that marks a shift in offensive cyber operations. By deploying the open-source Hermes Agent framework, the actor moved beyond human-led exploitation to a model where the AI handles target enumeration, vulnerability research, and attack execution without […]

First report: Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks — thehackernews.com, 11d