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AI-Linked Wallet Drained via Prompt Injection in Bankr Exploit

Summary by AMBCrypto
An attacker used prompt injection and social engineering to trick an AI-linked wallet into transferring millions of tokens, exposing new risks in agent-based crypto systems.
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Key points of the news: A wallet linked to AI and associated with “Grok” lost 3 billion DRB tokens, valued at approximately $155,000 to $180,000, following a prompt injection attack. An NFT Bankr Club Membership would have unlocked advanced permits, allowing the attacker to manipulate the AI to generate a valid transfer command. 80% to 88% of the funds would have been returned, but the incident exposed risks in agent permits, prompts controls an…

The attacker used Morse code to inject a transfer order through Bankr, an AI agent on the Base network that executed the transaction. Read more

IA agents impose themselves as new economic and social actors now impossible to ignore, to the point of becoming in their turn the targets of sophisticated attacks. The latest of the kind: a request sent in walrus to Grok that allowed to divert the equivalent of 200,000 dollars in DRB tokens. The article More than 200,000 dollars stolen from an IA thanks to a message in walrus appeared first on Cryptoast.

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Cryptoast broke the news on Monday, May 4, 2026.
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