There once was a time, when adding 'crypto' to your company name, boosted your share values. Now is the time, when adding 'AI' to your company name is boosting your share value.
And now finally the two awesomest shit-technologies of the 21st century learned to work together and helped to steal 150000 USD owth of cypto tokens from a wallet.
What happened?
There is a service called bankrbot, which is an AI agent, waiting for social media posts of authorized users who ask it to buy or sell crypto tokens... yes, because that is so much easier and safer then using you freakin wallet app... if you are not able to make money by real work.
It has several security measures to prevent malicious actions... but it didn't expect this:
You can add accounts to bankrbot by sending it a 'Bankrbot Club Membership NFT' (ah yeah, i forgot, NFT, the third awesomest shit-technology of the 21st century). So an attacker sent one to Grok and authorized it therefor as legit user of the bankrbot system.
Now simply asking Grok to send a message to bankrbot, to transfer a certain amount of crypto token to an unknown account would fail the safety measures.
Turned out, to ask Grok to translate the included morse code and then send it to the bankrbot, was not catched by the safety measures. Tough luck, 150000 USD gone. AI is going great today!