Chinese State Hackers Double Attack Volume After Adopting AI, Report Shows

Chinese state-affiliated hackers now run twice as many attacks as they did before handing mundane work to DeepSeek and open-source artificial intelligence (AI) systems, according to Taiwanese threat intelligence firm TeamT5. Attribution remains imprecise. The firm cannot tie every intrusion to a specific system, though it said that DeepSeek remains a popular choice among hackers.