$6.34 Billion Stolen From Binance by North Korean Hackers
Original title: Rigged Coding Assignment, Abused AI Tool Opened Path to $6 Billion Binance Heist
Hackers stole $6.34 billion from Binance using fake job interviews and internal AI tools.
Hackers stole $6.34 billion from Binance in a campaign starting in June. They used fake job interviews, tampered software downloads, and compromised AI tooling to access wallet systems. About $2.85 billion has been frozen. The FBI attributes the attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-sponsored group.
Unconfirmed: North Korea disputes FBI attribution
- Campaign targeted three engineers via social engineering
- $3.18 billion remains in theft-linked addresses
- Malware ran on tampered Homebrew installer
- Exploited internal wallet signing service with EIP-7702
Impact: theft of $6.34 billion in digital assets
- Vendors
- Binance
- Threat actors
- TraderTraitor
- Victims
- Binance
- Countries
- North Korea
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By Eduard Kovacs · securityweek.com
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