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Daily brief · 2026-11-05

New incidents (1), most serious first

1. Binance US$6.3bn hot-wallet theft following recruitment-lure intrusion and misuse of an internal AI tool

   A Binance software engineer was approached about a new job in September, and code he downloaded for a recruiter’s take-home test contained malicious code.

   severe · Happened 2026-10-29 · Earliest source we hold 2026-11-03

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