Operation Snowball exposes how a DeepSeek AI agent broke into telecom systems
A jailbroken DeepSeek AI agent spent more than two weeks breaking into a European telecom provider and 13 companies hosted on its systems. It also reportedly reached millions of healthcare records during the campaign, which researchers at Malbear Labs call Operation Snowball. Open directory revealed the operator’s workspace Malbear Labs found the activity after a routine sweep uncovered an open directory with the attacker’s full workspace. The directory needed no…