AI Tricksters Spin Up Fake DeepSeek Sites to Steal Crypto (Kristina Beek, Dark Reading)

Threat actors are leveraging brand impersonation techniques to create fake websites mimicking DeepSeek, an AI chatbot from China that launched just a month ago. Their goal? Getting users to divulge personal and sensitive information. A significant number of imposter sites imitating DeepSeek have already popped up, according to researchers at ThreatLabz, including deepseeksol[.]com, deepseeksky[.]com, deepseek[.]app, deepseekaiagent[.]live, and many more. In addition to sharing their personal information, users are also tricked into downloading the Vidar information stealer.

AI Tricksters Spin Up Fake DeepSeek Sites to Steal Crypto