{"id":1046946,"date":"2026-11-04T09:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046946"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:18:51","slug":"binance-reveals-fake-recruitment-interviews-compromised-ai-tool-used-in-usd-6-34-billion-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/04\/binance-reveals-fake-recruitment-interviews-compromised-ai-tool-used-in-usd-6-34-billion-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance reveals fake recruitment interviews, compromised AI tool used in USD 6.34 billion cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], November 4 (ANI): Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has revealed that attackers used fake recruitment interviews, malicious software and a compromised internal artificial intelligence (AI) tool to gain access to its systems before stealing around USD 6.34 billion in digital assets in an October 29 security breach. <\/p>\n<p>In its latest incident update on X, Binance described the attack as a \u201csophisticated, multi-stage campaign\u201d and said it was \u201cnot a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident\u201d. The exchange said the attackers combined social engineering, malicious software downloads, compromised internal AI tooling and an advanced transaction-authorisation method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], November 4 (ANI): Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has revealed that attackers used fake recruitment interviews, malicious software and a compromised internal artificial intelligence (AI) tool to gain access to its systems before stealing around USD 6.34 billion in digital assets in an October 29 security breach. In its latest incident update on X, Binance described the attack as a \u201csophisticated, multi-stage campaign\u201d and said it was \u201cnot a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident\u201d. The exchange said the attackers combined social engineering, malicious software downloads, compromised internal AI tooling and an advanced transaction-authorisation method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046952,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046946\/revisions\/1046952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}