Binance Co-CEO Details $6.3 Billion Cyberattack Involving AI Tools and Social Engineering
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng revealed that a massive cyberattack resulting in the theft of over $6 billion in crypto assets was executed through a sophisticated, multi-month social engineering campaign. The attackers utilized fake job interviews, malicious coding exercises, and tampered developer tools to infiltrate Binance's wallet infrastructure and internal AI systems. In response to the breach, Binance has already replenished 98% of the affected $6.34 billion in assets using its own reserves and is working with industry partners like Tether, Circle, and Ripple to freeze stolen funds. While the FBI has linked similar activities to North Korean hackers, Teng focused on the technical breakdown of how attackers bypassed security via compromised developer tools and AI-driven vulnerabilities.
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