Cybercriminals Exploit X's Grok AI to Bypass Ad Protections and Spread Malware to Millions
9月 04, 2025
Artificial Intelligence / Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new technique that cybercriminals have adopted to bypass social media platform X's malvertising protections and propagate malicious links using its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Grok. The findings were highlighted by Nati Tal, head of Guardio Labs, in a series of posts on X. The technique has been codenamed Grokking. The approach is designed to get around restrictions imposed by X in Promoted Ads that allow users to only include text, images, or videos, and subsequently amplify them to a broader audience, attracting hundreds of thousands of impressions through paid promotion. To achieve this, malvertisers have been found to run video card-promoted posts with adult content as bait, with the spurious link hidden in the "From:" metadata field below the video player that apparently isn't scanned by the social media platform. In the next step, the fraudsters tag Grok in replies to the post, asking something similar t...
