Artificial intelligence suspicion in Binance attack: “It made it much easier”

As the days pass, new claims are being made about the latest Binance attack, which is said to be behind the North Korean hacker group TraderTraitor. Experts interviewed by Bloomberg from the US media stated that there is a high probability that artificial intelligence technology was used behind this attack.

“He made it both easy and fast”

Park Sung-soo, manager of cloud-based cyber security company Zscaler, emphasized that artificial intelligence makes many attacks much easier and said:

"Recent developments in artificial intelligence tools have made it much easier to learn the skills and techniques required for such attacks. The moves during the attack have also accelerated. We know that TraderTraitor examines the internal systems of cryptocurrency companies. They carry out many attacks through the companies' infrastructure and fund transfer processes."

“They make fake job offers”

TRM Labs chief researcher Nick Carlsen touched upon a completely different topic and highlighted the social engineering tactics that have become very common lately, such as artificial intelligence:

"The tactics used by the TraderTraitor group recently indicate that the group makes significant use of artificial intelligence. Such groups also use social engineering tactics well. For example, they make fake job offers to employees who have access to company systems. They gain trust in the interviews, send them decoy links, and infiltrate systems and computers. In fact, social engineering is the group's main attack method... When you look at it, we can say that their main area of expertise is human factors."