🚨⚡️UPDATE: $6.3 BILLION Binance hack began with a FAKE job interview. 💻🎭
An engineer downloaded a coding assignment containing malware onto his work computer after attackers posed as recruiters, per CoinDesk. 🎯
- 🧠 Attackers later used an internal AI tool to reach two wallet engineers’ computers.
- 🔑 Stolen credentials let them run a malicious script on October 29.
- ⛓️ They exploited $ETH Ethereum’s EIP-7702 feature to gain control over a hot wallet. Containment took about four hours. ⏱️
🛡️ Binance says $2.85 BILLION has been frozen and 98% of affected tokens replenished with company funds. 💰 Users will not bear the losses. ✅
🇰🇵 The FBI attributed the attack to North Korea. 🚨
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An engineer downloaded a coding assignment containing malware onto his work computer after attackers posed as recruiters, per CoinDesk. 🎯
- 🧠 Attackers later used an internal AI tool to reach two wallet engineers’ computers.
- 🔑 Stolen credentials let them run a malicious script on October 29.
- ⛓️ They exploited $ETH Ethereum’s EIP-7702 feature to gain control over a hot wallet. Containment took about four hours. ⏱️
🛡️ Binance says $2.85 BILLION has been frozen and 98% of affected tokens replenished with company funds. 💰 Users will not bear the losses. ✅
🇰🇵 The FBI attributed the attack to North Korea. 🚨
#BinanceIncidentReport
#BinanceReopensWithdrawalsForMoreAssets
#USMidtermElections
