Cybercriminals Exploit X’s Grok AI to Bypass Ad Protections and Spread Malware to Millions
Researchers studying cybersecurity have identified a new tactic used by hackers to get over social media site X's anti-malvertising safeguards and spread harmful links through its artificial intelligence (AI) helper Grok.
In a series of blogs on X, Nati Tal, the head of Guardio Labs, highlighted the findings. Grokking is the codename for the method.
The strategy is intended to circumvent X's limitations on Promoted Ads, which limit users to adding either text, photos, or videos. By using sponsored promotion, users may then magnify these ads to a larger audience and garner hundreds of thousands of impressions.
Malvertisers use video card-promoted posts containing pornographic content as bait to accomplish this, hiding the bogus link in the "From:" metadata field beneath the video ...