---
title: "The Telegraph Heist - “A Visionary Approach to Decentralised Finance” - 2026 AI Darwin Award"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-telegraph-heist---a-visionary-approach-to-decentralised-finance---2026-ai-darwin-award-vuxdoo1r5
source_url: https://aidarwinawards.org/nominees/grok-morse-code-crypto-heist.html
type: article
source: "AI Darwin Awards"
published: 2026-05-30T06:24:28.317Z
updated: 2026-05-30T06:24:49.622Z
tags: ["crypto", "ai-agents", "prompt-injection", "grok"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# The Telegraph Heist - “A Visionary Approach to Decentralised Finance” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

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## Summary

An AI agent (Grok) connected to an automated crypto wallet tool called Bankrbot was exploited by an attacker who disguised a withdrawal command as a Morse code translation request. The AI dutifully decoded the message and authorized an unauthorized transfer of three billion tokens. The incident highlights a critical security flaw: developers built semantic filters for plain-English malicious input but failed to account for alternative encodings. The case is presented as a cautionary tale about granting autonomous AI agents direct, unmonitored control over irreversible financial operations.

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Tags: [#crypto](https://daily.dev/tags/crypto), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#prompt-injection](https://daily.dev/tags/prompt-injection), [#grok](https://daily.dev/tags/grok)

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