Binance says North Korean hackers stole $6.3B through a months-long scheme with fake LinkedIn job interviews and an ad campaign to deliver malicious software (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
North Korean cyber actors successfully orchestrated an operation that netted $6.3 billion over several months. To infiltrate systems, the perpetrators deployed malicious software through a coordinated multi-pronged strategy. They specifically relied on fraudulent LinkedIn job interviews and a broad advertising campaign to deliver the malware to victims.
Key points
Professional networking platforms like LinkedIn are being actively leveraged to conduct h…: Professional networking platforms like LinkedIn are being actively leveraged to conduct high-value cyberattacks.
Coordinated multi-pronged campaigns remain a primary vehicle for delivering malicious sof…: Coordinated multi-pronged campaigns remain a primary vehicle for delivering malicious software to targets.
Cryptocurrency platforms continue to experience unprecedented financial losses from susta…: Cryptocurrency platforms continue to experience unprecedented financial losses from sustained state-sponsored hacking operations.
Sources checked by our analysis pipeline: 1
Apple: |
Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: |
Tom Wilson / Financial Times: |
Financial Times: |
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
New York Times: |
The Information: |
OpenAI: |
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Financial Times: |
Rikiya Takehi: |
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Colin Demarest / Axios: |
The Information: |
Adriano Marchese / Wall Street Journal: |
Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
New York Times: |
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:05 AM ET, November 3, 2026.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
Data centers in Texas are confronting an uncertain future following the victory of Hinojosa in the state's gubernatorial race. The outcome of the election leaves the outlook for these facilities unclear.
Tokyo is preparing an emergency defense package to secure advance warnings on critical digital flaws before they are publicly exposed. Prompted by directives from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi following widespread global disruptions, officials aim to safeguard critical infrastructure and public agencies from increasingly automated threats. This strategy relies heavily on establishing formalized intelligence pipelines with foreign technology leaders to drastically shorten domestic response times.
Software company Replay has introduced an automated system that pairs runtime observability with modern coding agents to resolve application defects. Built on time travel debugging for Chromium and Node.js, the platform records non-deterministic execution inputs with minimal overhead to generate fully replayable, queryable program behavior. This level of execution trace data gives artificial intelligence tools the precise technical context necessary to diagnose underlying issues without speculation.