Cyber attacks

FBI confirms North Korea's role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses

CoinDesk1 November 2026, 01:10 UTCNorth Korea

While the FBI listed hundreds of addresses in its notice, Chainalysis said the Binance attackers have already used "thousands addresses," and expects this number to continue growing.

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