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incidents/AIR-2025-0164

AIXBT Crypto Bot Exploited via Fraudulent Prompts to Transfer ETH

Attack on AI4 Confirmed real-world lossPrompt injectionAgent hijack

Attackers infiltrated the dashboard of the autonomous AI crypto bot AIXBT and queued fraudulent prompts. This tricked the AI agent into transferring 55.5 ETH from its wallet.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Prompt injectionprimary
    Untrusted content (web pages, documents, emails, tool output) steers a model into ignoring its instructions.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
4 · Confirmed real-world loss
Financial loss, PHI/PII breach, safety impact or regulatory action.
targets
Enterprise deployment
products
AIXBT
incident date
18 Mar 2025
first reported
18 Mar 2025
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
prompt-injection · crypto-theft · agent-hijack
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-03-18
    Alleged Fraudulent Prompts via AIXBT Dashboard Led Purported AI Trading Agent to Transfer 55.5 ETH from Simulacrum Wallet
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1003

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