DeepSeek Security: Top 5 Model Threats and How to Defend
This report examines DeepSeek’s security and reliability by detailing five core model threats—DDoS attacks, unlimited inference, vulnerability exploitation, data poisoning, and jailbreak—alongside two private‑deployment risks and three external threats such as counterfeit apps, offering targeted mitigation strategies to help users safely adopt the platform.
This report focuses on the security and reliability of the DeepSeek platform, conducting an in‑depth discussion of the five major model security issues it faces (DDoS attacks, unlimited inference attacks, vulnerability detection and exploitation, data poisoning, and jailbreak), the two major security issues of private deployment (local deployment tool vulnerabilities and network attack risks), and the three external security issues (counterfeit apps and counterfeit websites collecting information to assist attacks). It aims to raise users’ security awareness, help different user groups understand potential risks, and propose targeted mitigation strategies to ensure effective handling of various security challenges when using DeepSeek.
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