How hackers pulled off the $6.3B Binance heist, per Binance’s own report: June: A wallet dev downloads a tampered tool, promoted via a search ad above the real one. Binance…
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How hackers pulled off the $6.3B Binance heist, per Binance’s own report: June: A wallet dev downloads a tampered tool, promoted via a search ad above the real one. Binance catches it, but the wallet…
How hackers pulled off the $6.3B Binance heist, per Binance’s own report: June: A wallet dev downloads a tampered tool, promoted via a search ad above the real one. Binance catches it, but the wallet team stays exposed. September: A second engineer, job hunting, “interviews” with a fake company’s CEO and downloads a malicious code repo. Oct 20: Attackers use that machine plus an internal AI tool to take over two wallet devs’ systems. Oct 29: Using stolen credentials, they trigger the script. 233M XRP leaves five hot wallets in 4 minutes. Final transfer lands almost 4 hours later. FBI blames North Korea. Pyongyang denies it. Fake job interviews are an old trick. This one worked on the biggest exchange in crypto. Source: Reuters
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