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CZ Wants a Crypto Security Alliance, Says AI Is Making Hackers Faster
In his first interview since the Binance hack, Changpeng Zhao says AI is speeding up cyberattacks and wants the industry to band together on security.
Binance: Fake job interview and internal AI tool led to breach
Binance's incident report says attackers got into the systems involved in the theft through a bogus job interview and an internal AI tool.
CZ Warns AI Is Making Big Crypto Hacks Easier After Binance Heist
Changpeng Zhao says automated tools are lowering the bar for sophisticated breaches, even though investigators haven't tied AI agents to laundering the stolen Binance funds.
Tether freezes $1.5B after Binance hack, but $729M gets out
Tether says it froze $1.5 billion in USDT within 30 minutes of the Binance hack, yet $729 million still escaped, and freezing isn't the same as getting money back.
Mercado Bitcoin Says It Will Cover User Losses After ~$40M Hack
The Brazilian exchange says customers won't eat the loss, and partners including Tether, Circle and Chainalysis have already helped freeze $11 million of the stolen funds.
No sign of AI in North Korean hackers' laundering of Binance funds
Elliptic's analysis of thousands of on-chain transfers points to old-fashioned scripts, not AI agents, behind the movement of stolen Binance funds.
Strangers are spamming the Binance hacker's wallets with 'help me bro' pleas
Nineteen wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have received nothing since Thursday except sub-dollar payments, each carrying a message.
Binance Wallets Bleed $2.5B After Withdrawals Reopen Post-Hack
Tracked Binance wallets lost $2.51 billion in net outflows on Nov. 1, the day the exchange resumed withdrawals after a $6.3 billion security breach.
Ethereum validators pocket $30M as Binance hackers dump in a rush
Bitquery data suggests the people who stole from Binance paid heavily to push trades through, and Ethereum validators collected most of it.
FBI Blames North Korea for $6B Binance Hack, Targets THORChain
In an Oct. 31 alert, the FBI pinned the Oct. 29 Binance theft on North Korea's TraderTraitor operation and urged THORChain to block the stolen funds.
FBI pins Binance hack on North Korea, asks DeFi to block addresses
The FBI has confirmed North Korea's role in the reported $6 billion Binance hack and asked the DeFi community to block BTC, ETH and SOL addresses tied to the attackers.
12 DeFi sites hijacked, all on Name.com; $138K stolen
A dozen DeFi front ends were taken over, and every one of the domains is registered through Name.com, pointing to a registrar-level compromise.