Binance Says It Blocked 57 More North Korea-Linked Cyberthreats This Year

Binance says it spotted 57 more cyberthreats tied to North Korea this year — and stopped every one of them. The exchange put the number out in a brief bulletin, flagged by @WatcherGuru, framing the figure as a body count of attacks that never landed.

That's 57 separate incidents in a single calendar year, all linked by the exchange to the same country. Binance isn't calling it a leak or a loss. It's calling it a block.

The bulletin didn't spell out what the threats looked like, which systems they went after, or whether customer funds ever sat in the crosshairs. What it did do is confirm the exchange is tracking a steady stream of North Korea-linked activity aimed at its operation.

North Korea-linked hacking crews have been blamed for some of the biggest crypto heists on record, and exchanges have long been prime targets for that kind of work. Which is why a disclosure like this reads less like a scare and more like a scoreboard.

Binance is the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, so what it catches — and what it says it catches — tends to set the tone for how the rest of the industry talks about security.

For now the headline is the count: 57. Binance says none of them got through this year, and it's advertising that number out loud.