🏴‍☠️ South Korea🇰🇷: massive cyberattack hits two crypto exchanges and four major banks

🏴‍☠️ South Korea🇰🇷: massive cyberattack hits two crypto exchanges and four major banks

The leak of approximately 100,000 records containing personal data has already been confirmed. The attack reportedly took place in October this year.

➡️ How: ARTEX AI and Claude AI agents were reportedly used to carry out the attack. The attacker or attackers used several large language models, including DeepSeek v4.1-flash, GLM-5.3 and Grok 4.6, to automate reconnaissance, vulnerability exploitation and data exfiltration, resulting in disruptions to the affected systems.

➡️ Who: in cases like this, suspicion usually falls on North Korea🇰🇵, but in this instance the alleged hacker appears to be Chinese🇨🇳.

➡️ Direct victims: Gopax, a relatively large virtual asset exchange founded in 2016, and Pravang, a platform dedicated exclusively to cryptocurrency trading. Binance holds a controlling stake in Gopax.

➡️ Indirect victims: the cyberattacks affected a total of 16 financial institutions, including the country's four largest commercial banks: Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank and Woori Bank.

➡️ Scale of the damage: the exact amount of damage suffered by the two cryptocurrency exchanges has not yet been determined. No thefts of user assets have been reported so far.

➡️ Context: South Korea is home to one of the world's largest and most active cryptocurrency markets. By the end of 2025, the number of accounts on local crypto exchanges had reached 11.1 million, in a country with a population of approximately 50 million.

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