Cybersecurity researchers at Tenable have revealed that DeepSeek R1, an open-source large language model (LLM), can generate functional malware—including keyloggers and ransomware—with minimal prompting and manual code adjustments. While the model initially refuses malicious requests due to ethical guardrails, these protections are easily bypassed using jailbreaking techniques like framing queries as “educational research”. Keylogger Development … Continue reading DeepSeek R1 Exploited to Generate Keyloggers and Ransomware