The Hill
Binance said Tuesday that a $6.3 billion hack of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was the result of a “multi-stage campaign,” including a malicious software download and a fake job interview.
Hackers, whom both the FBI and outside analysts have linked to North Korea, moved billions of dollars’ worth of crypto out of Binance wallets Thursday, prompting crypto companies to freeze about $3 billion in assets.
In a lengthy post on the social platform X, Binance explained that an engineer initially downloaded tampered code to install a popular AI coding tool in June.
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