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A Threat Actor Used DeepSeek to Orchestrate 460 Attacks via Telegram

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1 SIGNALFIRST DETECTED 3 August 2026
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24 Sept
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DeepSeek R2 just went open-source and it's matching GPT-4o on 9 of 12 benchmarks — for literally $0 in API costs

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