Hacks on Korean and Japanese enterprises likely used DeepSeek API, crackdown expected

zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-10-29

@zephyrz9 claims that a wave of hacks on Korean and Japanese enterprises likely used the DeepSeek API, and that DeepSeek will clamp down on access as the risk is too high.

The quoted post laments that "the world's last real open-source LLM lab" is castrating its own models in the name of safety: public APIs are losing cyber capabilities, and only audited enterprises will get the unaligned weights. Combined, they point to DeepSeek tightening model access and capabilities following abuse (unverified).

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