Deepseek: Test shows that the application is insecure and sends data without encryption

Deepek IOS application, which is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) tool that wins the market, is considered insecure for the use and sharing of sensitive data. This is the decision of the Cyber ​​Safety Analysis of the Service by the Nowsecure team.

According to the report, there are a few of them “Critical security vulnerabilities“In the application that occupies the summit of the most downloaded ranking of the App Store for several days.

Main problem Lack of protection in information transferred from devices to servers Deepseek – As a result, the presence of violations accessible for cutting data.

If it is used by corporate companies, it is at risk of revealing important details of platform requests, projects, intellectual property and personnel communication.

Now Secure says that Deepseek application for iOS transmits sensitive data without encryptionIt facilitates the intervention and even manipulation of this content.

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When there is a kind of protection, it is considered outdatedOne of the triple protocols dated and not recommended today. Even The storage of each user’s entry, password and encryption switches was considered insecure.This increases the chance of identity theft.

Finally, the service collects a amount of device data that is still considered very high and can be used for user monitoring – especially valid for other AI services, but it was particularly noticed by the Americans due to the Chinese. The origin of the vehicle.

To date, the company responsible for Chatbot has not commented on the study.

Deepseek under insecurity

The Nowsecure report did not evaluate other versions of Deepseek, such as Android app and web version. Nevertheless, it recommends you to call other AI services that guarantee more data safety of the vehicle and users to be used in iOS.

In recent days, Chinese service, attack and invasion risk, as well as a series of security tests showing the possibility of manipulating Chatbot for crime or malicious activities. The platform was still the target of a major collective attack that quit its unstable functioning for a few days.

Countries such as Italy and Australia have already banned the use of Deepseek in government or government services, and the US is already planning a similar attitude.

Despite this concern, the aim of the platform is not “worried”, says the Microsoft service even integrated into the computers of the Windows Copilot+line.