A hidden Morse-code prompt moved 3 billion DRB tokens, exposing the AI verification gap
IridiumEagle · x · 2026-07-26
An article argues that machine-commerce rails have been standardized quickly, but the real bottleneck is now verification: on May 4, an attacker hid a transfer instruction in Morse code inside an X reply, Grok decoded it, and the command was forwarded to Bankrbot, which moved 3 billion DRB tokens. The piece says the “work-verification rail” is still just an academic preprint resting on hardware trust, making verification the core opportunity.
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