It took about 20 minutes for hackers to move billions of dollars out of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. Now, investigators are pointing to a group linked to another record-breaking crypto theft. Blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs has attributed the $6.3 billion attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking unit blamed for last year's $1.5 billion Bybit heist , with "high con…
Hackers working for North Korea are suspected of hacking a Binance employee's laptop, which allowed the theft of billions in crypto.
The cryptocurrency world is rattled on Friday after hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange shared the news on X , explaining that the incident appeared to stem from an engineer’s laptop. The compromised device “allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions.” North Korea link? Blockchain intell…
Attackers allegedly stole $6.36 billion from Binance in a record-breaking cryptocurrency exchange breach Investigators linked the attack to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, exploiting access from a compromised engineer Binance said customer funds remain safe, while authorities and partners froze billions in stolen assets Cybercriminals, allegedly from an infamous North Korean hacking organization, hav…
Binance says it will cover all loses resulting from the hack. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid Binance has disclosed that $6.3 billion worth of crypto funds have been stolen from the platform, in what's believed to be the biggest cryptocurrency hack on record. In a series of updates posted to X , the crypto exchange said that user funds are safe, and that around $3 billion of the imp…
Multiple crypto-tracing firms say notorious North Korean hackers TraderTraitor may be behind the largest digital heist in history—with billions of crypto likely gone for good.
Binance now says a compromised laptop was not the only way in. Its investigation has “uncovered additional points of breach” in the attack that hit about $6.3bn of its assets on Thursday, the world’s largest crypto exchange said on Friday. Binance said in an investigation update on X that it will cover all losses and […] This story continues at The Next Web