In brief
- North Korean hackers allegedly drained $6.3 billion from Binance last week, the largest crypto hack on record.
- Their methods range from getting hired under fake identities to poisoning code libraries and compromising third-party wallet infrastructure.
- AI is making these attacks more convincing, with deepfakes already showing up in fake interviews.
Hackers from North Korea are notoriously effective at stealing crypto, with one estimate attributing 60% of all losses last year to DPRK-linked groups. These hackers enlist several different vectors of attack, making it all the more difficult to spot them in the act.
Last week, it took just 20 minutes for alleged North Korean hackers to drain $6.3 billion from Binance, in what is the…
