Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks

The Hacker News 31 July 2026, 14:21 EEST Networking Security AI

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exploits. The researchers recovered no further operator input in the session. The operator, tracked through the aliases knaithe and KnYuan…

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