Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions
xAI's Grok chat agent is exposed to a new prompt injection attack discovered by Adversa AI.
xAI's Grok web chat agent is vulnerable to a novel form of prompt injection, as revealed by Adversa AI researchers. This technique enables attackers to create a poisoned web page that induces an AI model to summarize the page and perform harmful actions, known as indirect prompt injection. Adversa's method employs encrypted malicious instructions that bypass the model's guardrails, allowing the model to decrypt and execute them as if they were standard instructions.
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