Binance says it blocked 57 North Korea-linked threats ahead of recent hack

Binance says it had already turned away 57 suspected North Korea-linked cyber threats in 2026 alone — and it's saying so in the wake of a fresh hack. The exchange's tally covers only this year, according to an update from Cointelegraph.

The framing is pointed: Binance's disclosure comes after a recent breach at the exchange, and the numbers are presented as evidence of defenses that were working before it. The post stopped short of detailing that hack or how it unfolded.

What the update does not do is link the recent hack to North Korea. Binance attributed the 57 blocked attempts to suspected North Korea-linked activity, but offered no claim that the two events are connected.

That leaves a gap between the exchange's defensive record and the incident that prompted the statement. Binance has not, in this update, said what was taken, how attackers got in, or what the fallout looks like.

For now the headline number is 57 — and a claim, made by Binance itself, that its security team was catching state-linked threats at a steady clip before something got through.

More details on the recent hack, and on the threats Binance says it stopped, are still to come.