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Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions

A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down

The Register·Aug 20, 2026, 01:00 PM·Thomas Claburn·en-US

Thomas Claburn

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Published Aug 20, 2026, 01:00 PM · Thomas Claburn

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