Binance stopped 57 North Korean cyber threats but fell for a fake job interview

Binance said a fake interview led to the compromise of one of its engineers in 2026, even though the cryptocurrency exchange stopped 57 suspected cyber threats linked to North Korea that year. The incident was disclosed in the exchange’s Nov. 3 security report, which described how the attackers operated. They used a recruitment scam with staged interviews, fabricated identities and malicious software to access the systems that were involved in a $6.34 billion cryptocurrency theft.