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Inside the $6.34B Binance Heist (Part 2): Fake Job Interviews, Weaponized AI Tools, Multi-Chain Exploitation, and the Corporate Recovery Playbook

Following our initial breaking analysis of the October 29 exploit, the full forensic autopsy of history's largest cyber heist has been revealed. Attributed by the FBI to North Korea's TraderTraitor (Lazarus Group), the $6.34B breach did not begin on the blockchain—it began with a 5-month social engineering campaign, fake job interview loops, weaponized AI coding tools, and internal container pivots across 10 blockchains. Here is the complete post-incident breakdown, how Binance coordinated a $2.85B freeze and 98% reserve replenishment, and the vital architecture lessons for enterprise security.