Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability

Help Net Security’s weekly review highlights a $6.3 billion Binance cryptocurrency theft reportedly enabled by a compromised DevOps engineer laptop and unauthorized withdrawals; a poisoned Claude Code extension containing a persistent SSH backdoor; fake IT help-desk social engineering leading to remote access and ransomware; large-scale payment-card phishing sites; and research into increasingly capable offensive cyber activity by an open-weight AI model. It also covers a major market-manipulation hacking conviction and defensive security product announcements.