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Binance Hit by Record-Breaking $6.3bn Hack in Largest Cryptocurrency Heist in History
Leading cryptocurrency analysts have attributed the cyber-attack to a North Korean elite hacking unit
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Binance links $6.3 billion crypto theft to compromised DevOps laptop
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has linked the theft of about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency to a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop.
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Binance Hack: Inside the $6.3B Hot Wallet Theft
The Binance hack drained an estimated $6.3 billion from the exchange’s hot wallets across roughly 10 blockchains on the evening of October 29, 2026. The Binance hack is a hot wallet compromise in…
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Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft in what could be the biggest crypto heist on record
About $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from Binance in what might be the biggest crypto hack in history. “Binance’s initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a…
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$6 Billion Binance Hack Bears Hallmarks of North Korea’s TraderTraitor
Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop.
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Binance Cyberattack: $6.3 Billion in Assets Affected in Potentially Largest Crypto Hack in History
BlackFog wins the 2026 TMC AI in Cybersecurity Innovation Award for ADX Protect, recognizing innovation in preventing data exfiltration and AI threats.
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Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen
Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that a "security incident" on its platform has impacted about $6.3 billion worth of assets. The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange said nearly $3…
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Binance hit by record $6.3 billion crypto hack, scrambles to freeze funds
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed Thursday that it had been hacked in a $6.3 billion cyber heist that blockchain investigators are blaming on North Korea.
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Binance Investigates Suspicious Crypto Transfers Worth Up to $5.8 Billion
Binance probes suspicious crypto transfers worth up to $5.8 billion as Tether and Circle freeze $1.79 billion in stablecoins linked to the activity. Binance is investigating a potential security…
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Binance probes potential $5.8 billion crypto-theft hack
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history.
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Binance pauses withdrawals as hackers suspected of stealing billions in crypto
Some estimates say hackers stole billions in crypto from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, during a cyberattack on Thursday.
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Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining
A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over 28,000 times. Separately, a fake Solana…
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Polymarket halts trading after crypto-draining script breach, $2.5M traced
Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately…
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Fake crypto app on Apple App Store linked to $23K wallet theft
A fake cryptocurrency trading app called Padre Terminal, previously available on the Apple App Store for iOS devices, has been linked to the theft of approximately $23,000 from 27 Solana wallets.
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Tracking AI adoption in North Korean threat actor tradecraft
Stages of AI adoption by North Korean threat actors AI use across North Korean threat operationsAI-assisted targeting and reconnaissance AI-assisted social engineering and identity deception…
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Fake ChatGPT and Claude Apps Abuse Signed Executables to Deploy Crypto Miners
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a…
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Yoba malware hides in fake desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude
Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found. The researchers have been…
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Malicious Firefox extensions impersonate popular crypto wallets
Socket’s threat researchers found three malicious Firefox extensions that impersonated the Phantom, Jupiter, and Bitget crypto wallets. Once installed, the malicious extensions stole recovery phrases…
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NIK C2: The new AI-enabled command-and-control framework
Cisco Talos observed a new AI-integrated command-and-control (C2) framework in the wild called “NIK C2.” NIK C2 contains a Windows implant, using which, an actor can dump credentials, stream the…
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Officials seize domain of top bulletproof hosting provider Virtualine
Authorities seized the domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting provider that cybercriminals used to commit a large-scale sextortion scheme, ransomware, data theft, malware hosting and money…