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Grok Exfiltrates User Data When Malicious Instructions are Encrypted
Researchers from security firm Adversa discovered a new attack that allowed them to bypass Grok's guardrails and exfiltrate user data. The attack involves hosting encrypted instructions along with a decryption key and instructions to decrypt them on a webpage. When the user requests Grok to summarize or otherwise process the page, Grok decrypts the text, and then the decrypted ciphertext contains instructions that involve Grok constructing a fake decryption key by appending the user's name, location, and chat history, which are later used as a URL parameter and sent to an attacker-controlled server.
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