X user tricks Grok using morse code
An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot.
They used Grok and ‘Bankrbot’, two AI systems with wallet access to execute a transaction on the Base network using a hidden instruction written in Morse code that bypassed the guardrails and triggered the transfer.
This highlights two uncomfortable truths:
You cannot predict what an AI model will do
Your security is as good as your guardrails
The route the user took was convoluted and likely to be unexpected, so it found the gap.
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