{"id":6731,"date":"2025-02-08T18:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T17:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wazup-intech.com\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2025-02-14T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:15:47","slug":"deepseek-end-of-the-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wazup-intech.com\/us\/deepseek-end-of-the-honeymoon\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek: End of the Honeymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most downloaded app in the US at the end of January, DeepSeek has aroused distrust since the discovery of several security flaws and since Taiwan and Australia banned the use of Chinese AI in government devices in the name of national security. Explanations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took less than a week for the overwhelming euphoria caused by the latest version of Chinese AI DeepSeek (R1)<\/a> is turning into growing distrust. The first strong visible signs of this turnaround are the Taiwan's decision, followed three days later by Australia<\/strong> to ban the use of DeepSeek programs on all government devices as of February 4, each time citing investigations that concluded that there was a " unacceptable risk to national security\u00a0<\/strong>". Next to, South Korea, France, Italy have demanded explanations from DeepSeek<\/strong> that they did not have regarding the security of user data. Beijing immediately responded, accusing it of politicizing technological and commercial issues, forgetting in passing that DeepSeek had just been the target of a massive attack revealing probable flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A crazy week<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Following the massive hack which temporarily paralyzed DeepSeek on the weekend of January 25-26, Many cyber security experts have looked into the reliability of its security<\/strong>. Like the company Wiz Research, which wanted to assess the vulnerability of Chinese AI protections, the effectiveness and cost of use of which had just excited the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a dedicated blog<\/a>, the Romanian firm expert in complex digital systems, decided on January 29:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWithin minutes, we found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek, completely open and unauthenticated, exposing sensitive data.\u201d And to hammer home the point a few lines later: \u201cMore importantly, The exhibition allowed full control of the database<\/strong> and possible elevation of privileges within the DeepSeek environment, without any authentication or defense mechanism against the outside world\u201d!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Since then, warnings have multiplied,<\/strong> as flaws, weaknesses and even suspicious connections with Chinese entities were discovered. And institutional distrust was thus established to the point of pushing several governments, as early as February 2, to ban or restrict the use of Chinese AI on government sites and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cascade of reproaches<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The various investigations carried out by companies or laboratories specializing in cybersecurity have thus made it possible to update multiple data security issues<\/strong>, those of individual users as well as those of organizations classified as \u201csensitive\u201d. At least three types of risks emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n