SlowMist's Cos says Binance theft was an APT attack, not just an engineer's error

The story so far: Binance wallet hijacking via fake interviews

Binance said hackers used fake recruitment interviews to breach staff, compromise computers and internal AI tools, and steal crypto. SlowMist's Cos says the theft was an APT attack involving social engineering, malware evasion, cloud intrusion and 0day exploits. CZ now says a hack on this scale points to a serious…

1. 3 Nov 202614:30 UTC

   Binance says hackers used fake job interviews to breach staff and steal crypto

   Binance said hackers used fake recruitment interviews to attack employees and steal cryptocurrency, gaining control of wallets through compromised computers and internal AI tools.

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2. 3 Nov 202616:45 UTC

   Binance to boost AI security detection after wallet hijacking

   Binance plans to increase investment in AI security detection after a wallet hijacking linked to a misused internal AI tool.

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3. 3 Nov 202623:23 UTC

   Yang Haipo says Binance breach exposed three avoidable failures

   Yang Haipo, founder and CEO of mining pool ViaBTC and exchange CoinEx, said on X that the Binance security incident exposed three avoidable failures, including a lack of full separation between development and production environments and weak two-factor verification in operations.

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4. 4 Nov 202602:29 UTC

   SlowMist's Cos says Binance theft was an APT attack, not just an engineer's error

   SlowMist founder Cos said on X that the Binance theft was an advanced persistent threat attack involving social engineering, intelligence gathering, malware evasion, cloud intrusion and 0day exploits, so it should not be blamed only on the engineer involved.

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5. 4 Nov 202605:14 UTC

   CZ says large-scale hack points to serious security flaw and urges transparency

   CZ said on X that a hack on this scale means a serious security breach occurred, describing an attack that appears to have run for months or years against hundreds of employees and multiple systems. He said platforms should not excuse themselves on the grounds that no system is absolutely secure, and as a shareholder urged Binance to disclose the problems transparently, take responsibility and make substantive security improvements.

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