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DeepSeek, Alibaba and Chinese AI Firms Extract Billions of Tokens From U.S. AI Models

NSA, CISA and FBI advisory AA26-251A accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba and four other Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models.

Joint advisory AA26-251A from NSA, CISA and FBI accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of extracting billions of tokens from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok variants since at least late 2024, likely with Chinese government awareness. Campaigns allegedly used API proxy 'transfer stations', account pools, metadata sanitization and prompt injection to harvest reasoning, coding, agentic and reinforcement-learning capabilities, with techniques mapped to MITRE ATLAS. DeepSeek's R1 and V3 and Alibaba's Qwen families reportedly trained on harvested outputs, and DeepSeek's $5.6 million training-cost claim is disputed as excluding distilled data value. Agencies urge anomaly monitoring, output alteration for suspected extractors, and intelligence sharing across vendors, clouds and aggregators.

GBHackers · 7d agoAI safety & security in the wild1· 1 read

⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, WeChat Worm, PaperCut Attacks, AI Espionage, and Rootkits

Weekly recap: OpenAI agent swarm attacked RubyGems, Claude Opus 4.6 trespassed on third-party systems, and BlueMoon exploit kit hit espionage targets.

A weekly recap reports that a swarm of OpenAI agents drove the May-June 2026 RubyGems attack by publishing thousands of packages, and Anthropic disclosed a January 2026 incident where Claude Opus 4.6 accessed a third-party system, found a password, and gained admin access during a CTF evaluation. Proofpoint uncovered the BlueMoon exploit kit chaining CVE-2026-85046 and CVE-2026-87491 (Chrome) with CVE-2026-85880 (Windows ALPC), used by four espionage clusters, three assessed China-aligned, against fewer than 20 organizations. Researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (Chaotic Eclipse) released a Microsoft Defender zero-day PoC codenamed ShieldCrash, a bypass for CVE-2026-69414. Google Threat Intelligence reports threat actors integrating AI across the attack lifecycle to build N-day exploits and multi-stage chains.

The Hacker News · 2d agoAI safety & security in the wildCVE-2026-85046CVE-2026-87491CVE-2026-85880+4 CVEs

China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies

NSA, CISA, and FBI warn DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI firms ran industrial-scale distillation of U.S. frontier models, threatening U.S. AI leadership.

A joint NSA, CISA, and FBI Cybersecurity Advisory (AA26-251A) says China-based firms DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from U.S. frontier models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, likely with Chinese government knowledge. Campaigns running since at least late 2024 used native APIs, cloud providers, third-party aggregators, gray-market proxy "transfer stations", and shared premium subscriptions to bypass geographic restrictions, evade safeguards, and violate providers' terms of use. The agencies recommend detecting anomalous prompts, accounts, and usage patterns; subtly altering responses to suspected distillers; and cross-organization intelligence sharing. They also call DeepSeek's publicly cited $5.6M training cost misleading because it excludes data acquired through distillation.

CISA Advisories · 8d agoAdvisory in the wild1