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Austria Now News – Vienna
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance on Tuesday released its preliminary findings on the cyberattack in which hackers stole cryptocurrencies worth $6.3 billion, around €5.62 billion, last week. It said a manipulated AI tool and a fake job interview had paved the way for the attackers, ORF reported.
It started in June
According to the platform, the attack began in June, when an employee on the digital wallet development team downloaded an AI tool. Although Binance detected this and changed the passwords, the hackers managed to identify this employee and several of his colleagues.
Job interview with a non-existent company
In September, another software developer who was looking for a new job held a virtual job interview with a person posing as the head of a fictitious company, during which he downloaded malicious code repositories onto his computer. On 20 October, the hackers used his computer and an AI tool to take control of the IT systems of the wallet developer and one of his colleagues.
Nine days later, the attackers used the colleague’s computer and the passwords stolen from the first employee to plant a malicious script that carried out the attack, according to the investigation report published by the platform.
North Korea accused
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and private analytics firms had blamed North Korean state-backed hackers for the attack, which ranks among the largest cryptocurrency thefts Austria Now News has followed in recent days.
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ORF, Binance: Hacker nutzten fingiertes Vorstellungsgespräch, 03.11.2026, https://orf.at/stories/3446995/
