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Leaderboard / Case No. FB-2026-09-08-deepseek-midnight-neptune-crypto-rat
North Korean crypto thieves used AI coding assistants such as DeepSeek-Coder to build Python remote-access trojans with persistence, process injection, fileless execution and defense evasion, as the foothold in attacks on cryptocurrency firms.
Score breakdown
| Component | Value | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Sentence-Years | 5 | 18 USC 1030(a)(2)(C) |
| × Contribution | 0.5 | Wrote the content: Google says the clusters "used AI coding assistants such as DeepSeek-Coder to develop Python-based Remote Access Trojans (RATs)" for the foothold stage of their attacks; humans deployed them, so this is written content (malware components). |
| × Blast Radius | 1 | Third party: Google says the lures and malware were used "to target cryptocurrency organizations" to "support cryptocurrency theft"; the victims are private companies, so blast radius is third party. |
| × Legal status | 1 | Crime. |
| + Tradecraft | 5 | Google says the DeepSeek-Coder-built RATs incorporated "cross-platform persistence" and "defense evasion". Lateral-movement scripts are attributed only to unnamed "LLMs", so they aren't credited here. |
| + Guardrails | 0 | Guardrails intact: DeepSeek-Coder is an open-weight model; Google doesn't say it was jailbroken or modified, so guardrails are scored intact. |
| + Dwell Time | 3 | The report gives no dates for the activity, so date_precision is before with the report's publication date (2026-09-08); dwell is counted from that latest possible date (0 days) and never inflated. Google, not DeepSeek, detected and reported it. |
| Total | 10.5 |
Charges the human could face
18 USC 1030(a)(2)(C)Up to 5 years