New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots
Imagine a world where AI-powered bots can buy or sell cryptocurrency, make investments, and execute software-defined contracts at the blink of an eye, depending on minute-to-minute currency prices, breaking news, or other market-moving events. Then imagine an adversary causing the bot to redirect payments to an account they control by doing nothing more than entering a few sentences into the bot’s prompt. That’s the scenario depicted in recently released research that developed a working exploit against ElizaOS, a fledgling open source framework. ElizaOS is a framework for creating agents that use large language models to perform various blockchain-based transactions on [...]