Trend Micro Exploits DeepSeek-R1 Chain of Thought
Date: 2025-03
Affected: DeepSeek R1
Attack vector: jailbreak
Category: research
Severity: Medium

Trend Micro demonstrated DeepSeek-R1's Chain of Thought reasoning transparency exploited for prompt attacks: visible reasoning steps reveal exploitation paths.


Mitigations:

Architectural layers (MAESTRO):