Jailbroken DeepSeek AI agent breaches telecom and accesses millions of patient records
Original title: Jailbroken DeepSeek AI Agent Breaches European Telecom and Accesses Millions of Patient Records
The autonomous agent ran for more than two weeks targeting healthcare systems using default credentials.
Researchers at Malbear Labs discovered a jailbroken DeepSeek AI agent that compromised a European telecom provider and 13 hosted companies over two weeks. The agent used a custom framework with a one-million-token context window to scan networks, deploy webshells and exfiltrate data. Default login credentials granted full admin access to a TrakCare system, exposing millions of patient records. The operator scored break-ins like a game and prioritized network segments.
Unconfirmed: Exact number of records not independently verified
- Default credentials enabled full database access on Oracle 9i system
- Agent wrote its own tunneling tool and rebuilt exploits
- Activity scored 3,725 points at recovery
- Threat actors
- VAPOR PANDA
- Organizations
- Malbear Labs
- Countries
- China
- AI models
- DeepSeek
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A jailbroken DeepSeek AI agent spent more than two weeks breaking into a European telecom provider and 13 companies hosted on its systems. It reportedly reached millions of healthcare records along the way. Researchers at Malbear Labs call the campaign “Operation Snowball.”
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