Binance Hack: How Fake Job Interviews and AI Abuse Led to a $6.34 Billion Attack

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What happened

SecurityAffairs reporting from November 2026 covers major cyber threats including the alleged $6.34 billion Binance cryptocurrency theft attributed by the FBI to North Korea, ransomware targeting unpatched Synology NAS devices, a 1.3 million-device Android set-top-box botnet, AI-assisted infostealing and victim profiling, mercenary spyware targeting German officials, attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems, manipulation of emergency alert applications, and a Chainalysis data breach exposing limited customer information. The feed reflects high-impact activity spanning financial theft, ext5

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