Binance blocks North Korea-linked cyberattacks, reports no asset losses

Binance says it fended off multiple cyberattacks linked to North Korean threat actors over the past week. According to the exchange, none of them compromised its systems, and no assets were lost. The attackers did not try brute force. They tried a job interview. Binance tied the attempts to a social engineering campaign called “Contagious Interview,” which uses fake hiring processes to get people to run malicious software on their own machines. How the attack works, and how Binance stopped it Binance made the announcement on October 27, 2026. It said the blocked attempts had taken place over the previous week. The Contagious Interview playbook leans on deception. Targets are approached with what looks like a legitimate job opening, then guided through interviews and coding tests. At some point, the candidate is nudged into executing code that turns out to be malicious. The coding test is the clever bit. Developers run unfamiliar code all the time, so a request to download a project and execute it can feel completely routine. That familiarity is the bait. Binance reported that no systems were compromised and no assets were lost. In response, the exchange urged both users and its own...