Binance Traces Wallet Breach to Compromised Computer, Internal AI Tool

Binance said an attacker used a compromised engineer’s computer and an internal AI tool to reach wallet operations in a breach that affected about $6.34 billion in digital assets. The exchange’s initial findings, published Tuesday, Nov. 3, trace the intrusion to a fake recruitment process in September. An engineer downloaded a malicious coding assignment onto a work computer. On Oct. 20, the attacker used that computer and Binance’s internal AI tool to access two other engineers, one of whom had a container deployment permission token. On Oct.