North Korean hackers used fake job interviews to steal about $6.34bn from Binance
CRITICAL · BREACHBinanceredteam/daily · 3 sources
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What happened
Attackers linked by the FBI to North Korea tricked a Binance engineer into a fake job interview and a malicious download. They then moved through staff computers and an internal AI tool to reach the systems that move the exchange's crypto. Binance says about $6.34 billion in digital assets was affected, and it plans to absorb the loss.
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What to do
- Treat job offers that ask you to run code or download an assignment onto a work computer as a threat.
- Use separate devices for job interviews and keep deployment tokens off laptops.
- Limit what internal AI tools can reach and track changes to account permissions, not just transfers.
- During an incident, revoke access and rotate keys as separate steps.
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Full story timeline · 3 updates
- Tue 3 NovemberNorth Korean Hackers Abuse Internal AI Tool and Fake Job Interviews in $6.34 Billion Binance HeistCyber Security News
- Binance Says Hackers Used Well-Known Tricks to Carry Out a $6.34 Billion HeistWired (Security)
- Binance Hack: How Fake Job Interviews and AI Abuse Led to a $6.34 Billion AttackSecurity Affairs
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