Watch out for malware for Google from fake DeepSeek!

DarkReading.com reported that “Fake DeepSeek ads in Google search results are delivering infostealing malware to unsuspecting users.”  The March 27, 2025 article entitled “Fake DeepSeek Ads Spread Malware to Google Users” (https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/fake-deepseek-ads-spread-malware-google) included these comments:

DeepSeek, a Chinese generative AI (GenAI) company, became a household name earlier this year when it released its first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1, to much fanfare. But the company quickly became a target of hackers and opportunistic cybercriminals that built social engineering schemes by spoofing the popular AI platform.

And these comments from Jérôme Segura (Malwarebytes' senior director of research):

The payload for the specific campaign we looked at in our blog post is the Heracles MSIL Trojan. Heracles is an information stealer that mostly seems to go after crypto wallets,…

Be careful out there!