North Korean hackers allegedly stole $6.3 billion from Binance in just 20 minutes last week, making it the largest crypto theft on record. They compromised a Binance engineer’s work computer through a fake job interview, then used an internal AI tool to take control of other machines and hijack an internal wallet-signing service. The attackers also recruit workers under false identities, poison code libraries and exploit third-party infrastructure, while deepfakes make their scams more convincing. One estimate attributes 60% of all crypto losses last year to DPRK-linked groups, while Binance says its security team neutralized 57 suspected North Korean cyber cases in 2026.
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