Binance Lost $6.3 Billion Without Losing a Key
2026-10-30 • Threat Mon •
https://threatmon.io/binance-lost-6-3-billion-without-losing-a-key
Attackers transferred approximately $6.3 billion from 17 Binance hot wallets after compromising a DevOps laptop and reaching infrastructure capable of submitting transactions to Binance's signer. On Ethereum, 50 pre-obtained EIP-7702 authorizations enabled a malicious delegation that supported repeated withdrawals for nearly four hours without additional signatures. ThreatMon assesses attribution to DPRK-linked TraderTraitor as plausible with moderate-to-high confidence, based on multiple analytics firms, recurring signing-path tradecraft, and laundering overlap with Bitget proceeds. No government attribution had been issued, and Binance reported no evidence of private-key, customer-data, or KYC exposure.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALLET | AffzFDKZbyMiU11zmVBoAqD25ugpr7x… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-31 |
| WALLET | 0x8532FA14ACAf483729C449b8458ae… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-31 |
| WALLET | 9SkjwUs5pRRQQo5a6g4m5cciy1xLdDe… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-30 |
| WALLET | rK21t6nGLy4MNDqhvy3pGwcLFy25qgf… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-30 |
| WALLET | TG5iBMQPrDzJJAUM8GMVBf1hRaJ1wvz… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-30 |
| WALLET | TPBkSjkCMn2ckrMuAP8n2J1jdjbw76b… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-30 |
| WALLET | 0x5227f603C1eE34CE3C06eFe647700… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-30 |
| WALLET | 0x63e842B054Bd624a465454D533C33… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-30 |
| WALLET | 0x7C8601d4645b93cea45F71e118A72… | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-30 |