Morse Code Used as Part of a Hack to Steal $200,000 Worth of Cryptocurrency
/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. The incident involved Grok and ‘Bankrbot’, two AI systems with wallet access, which were manipulated into executing a transaction on the Base network.
The attacker received 3 billion DRB tokens, valued at roughly $200,000 at the time, after sending a hidden instruction written in Morse code that bypassed safeguards and triggered the transfer. The exploit was carried out by an X user, who later deleted their account after completing the transaction.
