Cybersecurity Experts Call for DeepSeek to Be Removed from iPhones Due to Vulnerabilities
Specialists from NowSecure checked the Chinese neural network DeepSeek app for iOS and found a number of serious vulnerabilities. The key risks included the transfer of unencrypted files, data collection, and outdated encryption keys.
The app has been one of the most popular for iPhone since January 25, quickly becoming a trend thanks to its free functionality. However, cybersecurity checks revealed a list of shortcomings due to which the app was recommended not to be used on business devices:
- transfer of unencrypted data over the Internet;
- outdated Triple DES encryption system with hard-coded keys and repeated initiation vectors;
- unreliable data storage;
- collection of user data.
Also listed as a risk was the sending of data to the Chinese company ByteDance, which recently fell under a US law requiring the sale of TikTok and other apps to American owners.
Let us recall that the new DeepSeek neural network model brought down NVIDIA shares and attracted the attention of industrial giants like Microsoft. The latter, together with OpenAI, suspected developers from China of training AI on ChatGPT.
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