Taiwan has prohibited government agencies from using the Chinese AI platform DeepSeek, citing significant risks to national information security. The Ministry of Digital Affairs has emphasized the potential dangers linked to cross-border data transmission and possible information leakage. This decision follows similar actions by Italy and various companies due to apprehensions about data handling practices. DeepSeek, despite its open-source appeal and cost-effectiveness compared to competitors, faces scrutiny for sensitivity in its operations and has been subjected to multiple cyberattacks, raising alarms about its reliability and safety.
"Government agencies and critical infrastructure should not use DeepSeek, because it endangers national information security," according to a statement released by Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs.
DeepSeek's Chinese origins have prompted authorities from various countries to look into the service's use of personal data.
The popularity of DeepSeek has also led to it being targeted by 'large-scale malicious attacks,' with NSFOCUS revealing that it detected three waves of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its API interface.
The average attack duration was 35 minutes. Attack methods mainly include NTP reflection attack and memcached reflection attack.
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