{"id":682424,"date":"2026-11-06T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/binance-hackers-had-8-weeks-of-access-before-6-3b-exploit-security-alliance-estimates\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:46:14","slug":"binance-hackers-had-8-weeks-of-access-before-6-3b-exploit-security-alliance-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/binance-hackers-had-8-weeks-of-access-before-6-3b-exploit-security-alliance-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance hackers had 8 weeks of access before $6.3B exploit, Security Alliance estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/11\/01M6R6HFGR0ZQXJ31EX11P2NV5\/hi-how-zachxbt-traced-a-31m-bitcoin-donation-to-a-flagged-wallet.jpg\" alt=\"Binance hackers had 8 weeks of access before $6.3B exploit, Security Alliance estimates \" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cybersecurity company flagged similar multi-stage intrusion patterns behind other high-profile crypto heists, including the $388 million Bitget hack.<\/p>\n<p>Non-profit cybersecurity organization Security Alliance (SEAL) estimates that the North Korea-linked TraderTraitor gained access to Binance\u2019s systems about eight weeks before the $6.3 billion exploit on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The hacking group gained access to Binance\u2019s systems sometime in September, wrote SEAL in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/radar.securityalliance.org\/tradertraitor-vs-contagious-interview-a-look-at-binances-initial-incident-report\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, adding that threat actors can navigate these systems with a \u201chigh degree of stealth over prolonged periods of time\u201d after initial intrusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SEAL identified at least four \u201cfront companies\u201d associated with TraderTraitor\u2019s fake recruitment campaigns in 2026, including citalab.net, citalab.com, bitfit.io and oddium.io.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/binance-hackers-8-weeks-access-63b-exploit-security-alliance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cybersecurity company flagged similar multi-stage intrusion patterns behind other high-profile crypto heists, including the $388 million Bitget hack. Non-profit cybersecurity organization Security Alliance (SEAL) estimates that the North Korea-linked TraderTraitor gained access to Binance\u2019s systems about eight weeks before the $6.3 billion exploit on Oct. 29. The hacking group gained access to Binance\u2019s systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-682424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}