For people holding crypto on an exchange, the security of employee devices and credentials is part of the custody picture. In a report published on November 12, 2026, at 15:10 (UTC+8), PANews cited Cointelegraph in connecting an earlier warning from Binance chief security officer Jimmy Su to a later attack.
Su said in a July interview that attackers could tailor a fake job offer to an employee and persuade them to run code as part of a technical assessment. According to Su, running that code could compromise the device, allowing attackers to steal credentials and move further into the network. He said the individual steps of such an assessment can appear legitimate, making them difficult for many antivirus tools to flag.
PANews reported that this entry method closely resembled the one later used by attackers, and described Binance as having lost $6.3 billion in the hack. The supplied report does not provide an independent accounting of that loss or establish that the July warning identified the specific later attack.