Rigged Coding Assignment, Abused AI Tool Opened Path to $6 Billion Binance Heist
Binance says the hackers behind last week’s$6.34 billion theftreached its wallet signing systems after a months-long campaign that compromised three engineers’ computers, one of them through a fake job interview.
The exchange published its initial incident report on November 3. Roughly $2.85 billion of the stolen assets has been frozen or intercepted.
“This should not have happened, and we apologise for the concern, disruption and uncertainty it caused our users, partners and the wider industry,” Binance said.
The FBI has blamed the theft on TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group.
How the attack unfolded
According to Binance, the intrusion unfolded in stages and relied on fake recruiters, malicious downloads, hijacked employee computers and an internal AI tool. “It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,” the company noted.
The campaign started in June, when a Wallet DevOps engineer downloaded a tampered Homebrew...
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