Malicious packages deepseeek and deepseekai published in Python Package Index


As part of their research and monitoring efforts, the Supply Chain Security team of the Threat Intelligence department of the Positive Technologies Expert Security Center (PT ESC) detected and prevented a malicious campaign in the Python Package Index (PyPI) package repository.

The attack targeted developers, ML engineers, and ordinary AI enthusiasts who might be interested in integrating DeepSeek into their systems. PyPI is used as a default package repository in popular package managers: pip, pipenv, and poetry.

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Source: Positive Technologies 


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