COINTELEGRAPH · 2026-11-12 05:12 UTC

Binance CSO unwittingly foreshadowed $6.3B hack tactic months before attack

Binance's chief security officer Jimmy Su warned in a July interview that fake job interviews with malicious coding assessments were a concern, since executing the code could compromise a device and enable credential harvesting. In September a Binance software engineer ran a malicious coding assignment from a fake job interview on a work computer, which Binance's preliminary investigation says became part of the multistage attack behind the $6.3 billion October theft. Binance said it blocked 57 suspected North Korea-linked cyber threats this year, roughly one every five days, and has since…

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