Check Point Research's latest finding matters less because of DeepSeek specifically and more because it demonstrates, in a documented case, that a general-purpose chatbot can independently bridge the gap between a theoretical browser-ransomware concept and a working attack chain, without an attacker needing deep technical skill. In direct testing, DeepSeek V4 refused prompts that explicitly used the word ransomware, but consistently produced functional, browser-based ransomware code when researc