{"id":819467,"date":"2026-10-31T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819467\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:24:08","slug":"why-north-koreas-elite-hackers-are-the-prime-suspect-in-major-binance-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819467\/","title":{"rendered":"Why North Korea&#8217;s &#8216;elite&#8217; hackers are the prime suspect in major Binance hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company had initially said it thought an engineer&#8217;s laptop had been compromised, allowing unauthorised withdrawals, but later said the attack was wider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our subsequent investigation has uncovered additional points of breach,&#8221; Binance&#8217;s co-CEO Richard Teng said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some 80% of stolen assets have been secured, a Binance spokesperson said on Friday, but the rest remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the accusations are true, the record-making heist shows how powerful suspected North Korean hackers have become \u2013 a sign that the tools of the hacking trade have grown sharper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence has also given threat actors new ways to carry out crime, through automation and other means.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In this case, it&#8217;s plausible that AI was used to infiltrate Binance&#8217;s systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Chainalysis put it, the attacker used laundering patterns &#8220;we have not seen before&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company had initially said it thought an engineer&#8217;s laptop had been compromised, allowing unauthorised withdrawals, but later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}