Binance hack: most of $6.3B moved in 20 minutes, and it was rehearsed
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Binance hack: most of $6.3B moved in 20 minutes, and it was rehearsed
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The Binance hack stole about 6.3 billion dollars, with most funds moving in roughly 20 minutes. The FBI attributed the biggest recorded crypto heist to North Korea on October 31. Plus: Jepsen finds 96 bugs in ParticleDB, a Claude Code extension on the Cursor marketplace ships an SSH backdoor, Nolan Lawson measures the AI cost of JavaScript frameworks, Claude writes an exploit for a critical Linux vulnerability, and Karpathy vibe codes HackerTube.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:50 The 6.3 billion dollar Binance hack
4:28 Jepsen breaks ParticleDB
6:20 Backdoored Claude Code extension on Cursor
8:05 The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
9:30 Critical Linux TCP bug CVE-2026-98432
11:33 Karpathy vibe codes HackerTube
12:47 Lightning round
14:14 Outro
Sources
arkm.com: Binance-hacker-1029: $5.6B stolen from Binance https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a9...
Wired: The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes https://www.wired.com/story/the-dolla...
jepsen.io: Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb...
phorion.io: Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claud...
nolanlawson.com: The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/th...
atlasum.net: TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-984...
karpathy.bearblog.dev: HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-...
parameter.ai: Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-foun...
jetstream.security: Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing https://jetstream.security/insights/b...
status.northflank.com: Northflank Breached https://status.northflank.com
Tom's Hardware: Lenovo fingerprint USB stick sold as AES-256 encrypted had a plain SD card inside https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-ind...
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